Preoccupations + internet 851
William Gibson On MONDO 2000 & 90s Cyberculture (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #16) | ACCELER8OR
3 days ago by Preoccupations
"I never though that cyborgs and virtual worlds were particularly utopian, so I’ve never been disappointed. The world is always more interesting than some futurist’s vision. If you think it’s not, you’re not really looking. … The Singularity has always sounded to me like a secular version of the Rapture. It seems to fit very neatly into that same God-shaped hole. We’re been there before. I like us better when we aren’t. … Who we are is largely who we meet. Cities are machines that randomize contact. The Internet is a meta-city, meta-randomizing contact. I now “know” more people than I would ever have imagined possible, because of that. It changes who I am and what I can do."
interview
sf
William_Gibson
cyborgs
virtual_reality
cities
internet
2012
3 days ago by Preoccupations
How Social Video Could Kill YouTube
5 days ago by Preoccupations
"This kind of simplicity is only possible from startups that begin and end with the smartphone or tablet. The online world of websites and PCs is so last generation to them. The generational shift from the PC to mobile devices in accessing the Web is the kind of rapid change that can mark the downfall of companies as powerful as Google and Facebook in as little as five years, Eric Jackson, founder and managing member of Ironfire Capital, recently argued in Forbes. In roughly 20 years, the world has seen three Internet generations starting with the Web portals (Yahoo, AOL, Amazon, eBay and Google), then the social media companies (Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon), and now mobile. Each new generation brings changes that the older generation can't quite adapt to fast enough, Jackson argues. Yes, the seniors can try to buy their way in, such as Facebook paying $1 billion for Instagram, but they are still left with trying to bolt the new platform onto the older platform, which is still driving profits. While older companies struggle to reinvent their legacies, Viddy, SocialCam and other startups remain focused on the technology people are quickly moving to today - in this case, mobile devices. This razor-sharp focus has led to Viddy and SocialCam amassing more than 60 million users. Meanwhile, the previous generation is reaching for the oxygen mask to try to keep up."
internet
video
mobile
2012
change
disruption
5 days ago by Preoccupations
Doc Searls Weblog · The Real Story of Send
6 days ago by Preoccupations
"we need to keep hearing the all-but-silent argument for the Net and its protocols. Because without those we wouldn’t have the rest."
internet
history
email
Doc_Searls
protocols
2012
Jon_Postel
1982
6 days ago by Preoccupations
BERG x Ericsson: ‘Joyful net work’ and Murmurations – Blog – BERG
10 days ago by Preoccupations
"The network is part of our everyday lives. Seeing the network is the first step to understanding the network, acting on it, and gaining an everyday literacy in it. So what should it look like? These video sketches are part of our ongoing effort to find out"
BERG
networks
internet
models
visualisation
visualization
2012
flocking
10 days ago by Preoccupations
What they want is control | Open Rights Group
25 days ago by Preoccupations
— Charlie Stross Now, if I can just get Claire Perry (for whom I didn't vote) to understand this ()
ORG
rights
freedom
internet
government
UK
2012
filtering
censorship
ISPs
from iphone
25 days ago by Preoccupations
Sergey Brin - Google+ - I believe the internet has been one of the greatest forces…
5 weeks ago by Preoccupations
"I certainly do not think this issue is on a par with government based censorship. Moreover, I have much admiration for two of the companies we discussed -- Apple and Facebook. I have always admired Apple’s products. In fact, I am writing this post on an Imac and using an Apple keyboard I have cherished for the past seven years. Likewise, Facebook has helped to connect hundreds of millions of people, has been a key tool for political expression and has been instrumental to the Arab Spring. Both have made key contributions to the free flow of information around the world. So what was my concern and what about Google for that matter? I became an entrepreneur during the 90’s, the boom time of what you might now call Web 1.0. Yahoo created a directory of all the sites they could find without asking anyone for permission. Ebay quickly became the largest auction company in the world without having to pay a portion of revenue to any ISP. Paypal became the most successful payment company and Amazon soared in e-commerce also without such tolls or any particular company’s permission. Today, starting such a service would entail navigating a number of new tollbooths and gatekeepers. If you are interested in this issue I recommend you read http://futureoftheinternet.org/ by +Jonathan Zittrain. While openness is a core value at Google, there are a number of areas where we can improve too (as the book outlines). But regardless of how you feel about digital ecosystems or about Google, please do not take the free and open internet for granted from government intervention. To the extent that free flow of information threatens the powerful, those in power will seek to suppress it."
Sergey_Brin
2012
Guardian
internet
openness
Apple
Facebook
power
5 weeks ago by Preoccupations
Beware the unholy alliance of state and internet - FT.com
7 weeks ago by Preoccupations
"“Going dark” is a myth; we live in a golden age of surveillance. Intelligence services have access to more data than ever before – it just happens to be gathered by the private sector." Instead of granting intelligence services more power, we need to worry about the coming convergence of the data-gathering demands of the state and the business imperatives of internet companies. … The idea that we need to make it easier for governments to do this, in the UK and elsewhere, is ludicrous. We need to be doing the exact opposite. It is only by anticipating the consequences of this coming unholy alliance between internet companies and intelligence agencies that our freedoms can be defended."
Evgeny_Morozov
UK
surveillance
internet
FT
2012
freedom
government
7 weeks ago by Preoccupations
How bots are taking over the world | Dan O'Hara and Luke Robert Mason | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
7 weeks ago by Preoccupations
"we need to realise how many of our "co-workers" are in fact algorithms"
bots
algorithms
internet
2012
Guardian
from iphone
7 weeks ago by Preoccupations
La Quadrature du Net | Internet & Libertés
9 weeks ago by Preoccupations
"La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. As such, La Quadrature du Net engages in public-policy debates concerning, for instance, freedom of expression, copyright, regulation of telecommunications and online privacy. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age."
activism
freedom
internet
digital_life
rights
9 weeks ago by Preoccupations
Mozilla CEO: Don't Understand The Internet? Get Out Of Government - Josh Smith - NationalJournal.com
10 weeks ago by Preoccupations
"The Internet is a way of life for billions of people but some in Washington still don't seem to get it, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs said on Saturday. "If you don't understand the Internet, you don't have any place in government," he told an audience at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin. Given the impact of the Internet on daily life, Kovacs said, he is amazed when members of Congress express a desire to hire staffers who "understand" the Internet. "It's not something you learn, or hire someone for. It has to be the way you live your life," he said."
internet
government
politics
2012
digital_life
10 weeks ago by Preoccupations
…My heart’s in Accra » Unpacking Kony 2012
11 weeks ago by Preoccupations
"But maybe I’m misreading the tone of your post, as it has a very crisis-of-belief flavor to it. There’s nothing wrong with Kony as an example, but this sort of oversimplification in politics is generic. There’s plenty of examples very close to home, where e.g. the whole the social-media/start-up world went nuts over SOPA, getting into a lather over a very overblown narrative of the evil enemies of the Net destroying sites over single infringing link. Or Net Neutrality just before that, where relatively minor network management issues were treated as essentially literal conspiracies. There are good policy reasons to oppose SOPA/favor NN, but those aren’t amendable to popular campaigns. Why expect Ugandan politics to have more of a “complex and nuanced response” than US politics (e.g “death panels!”). Is it just that this topic is near and dear to you, from your experience in Africa? Again, that’s fine, we all have our personal touchstones. But it seems little late to be discovering that the Internet is really good at spreading appealing stories without regard to truth, and manipulators with money can exploit this for their agendas."
Seth_Finkelstein
Ethan_Zuckerman
Kony_2012
truth
web
Internet
2012
11 weeks ago by Preoccupations
Tech giants have power to be political masters as well as our web ones | Technology | The Observer
12 weeks ago by Preoccupations
"The question MacKinnon raises is: in what sense do Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google enjoy the consent of the networked? The lawyer's answer is that consent was obtained by agreeing to the terms and conditions when people signed up. If you don't like the rules then you don't have to join. That might work in contract law – and indeed was probably OK when these companies first opened for business. But it now looks a bit threadbare because of the way in which the platforms of cloud-based companies morphed imperceptibly into public spaces in which people expressed their opinions and values. So we've ended up in a situation in which we expect the norms of Speaker's Corner to apply in Westfield, even though a shopping mall is not a public space."
John_Naughton
internet
politics
Observer
2012
Rebecca_MacKinnon
power
12 weeks ago by Preoccupations
We, the Web Kids - Piotr Czerski - The Atlantic
february 2012 by Preoccupations
"One more thing: we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that remind us of childhood_ music accompanied ten years ago: in external memory network these are simply Remembering them_ exchanging and developing them is something as natural 'Casablanca' you. find online watched children show children_ just you told story about Little Red Riding Hood or Goldilocks. Can imagine someone could accuse breaking law this way? cannot_ either."
web
Internet
youth
culture
2012
february 2012 by Preoccupations
It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? | John Battelle's Search Blog
february 2012 by Preoccupations
"The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. … We’re slowly but surely creating an Internet that is abandoning its original values … we, as the co-creators of value through interactions, data, and sharing, take responsibility for ensuring that the Internet continues to be a commons."
John_Battelle
2012
Google
Facebook
Apple
Amazon
web
walled_gardens
openness
open_web
internet
commons
february 2012 by Preoccupations
Clay Shirky: Sopa and Pipa would create a consumption-only internet | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
january 2012 by Preoccupations
"the proposed law that would result from Sopa and Pipa will only work if you are put under 24-hour digital surveillance. … Sopa and Pipa are, quite simply, an attempt to create a privatised form of international censorship, and because the censorship would have to be nearly total to be effective, they would have a profound and chilling effect on any form of public conversation among ordinary citizens. It would render the internet a place where the only content to be seen or heard or read is produced by professionals, with the rest of use relegated to the role of pure consumption."
Clay_Shirky
Guardian
2012
SOPA
PIPA
internet
web
censorship
copyright
IP
freedom
chilling_effect
from iphone
january 2012 by Preoccupations
What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Atlantic Mobile
january 2012 by Preoccupations
Objectivity: "view from nowhere"; paper: "disconnected medium"; "new topology of knowledge"; smart rooms: @dweinberger
David_Weinberger
2012
book
knowledge
internet
web
collaboration
objectivity
echo_chamber
interview
from iphone
january 2012 by Preoccupations
John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website | Technology | The Observer
january 2012 by Preoccupations
McLuhan "also pointed me to Oxford zoologist JZ Young's 1950 BBC Reith lectures entitled "Doubt and Certainty in Science". And I recall his quoting one memorable line that has stuck with me and informed my thinking since that day: "We create tools and mould ourselves through our use of them."" "Cage reached across the table and handed me a copy of Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener. Fast forward two years. Around 1967, I spent two days with Stewart Brand while he was assembling the first edition of the Whole Earth Catalog and we sat and read the book together, underlining as we went along. Central to our interest was the notion of "feedback", the non-linear relationship of input to output. It was apparent that the ideas in cybernetic theory were far more important than the applications for which the mathematical descriptions were designed."
Edge
interview
2012
internet
tools
cybernetics
thinking
from iphone
january 2012 by Preoccupations
Scripting News: The Un-Internet
january 2012 by Preoccupations
"My first experience with the Internet came as a grad student in the late 70s, but it wasn't called the Internet then. I loved it because of its simplicity and the lack of controls. There was no one to say you could or couldn't ship something. No gatekeeper. In the world it was growing up alongside, the mainframe world, the barriers were huge. An individual person couldn't own a computer. To get access you had to go to work for a corporation, or study at a university. Every time around the loop, since then, the Internet has served as the antidote to the controls that the tech industry would place on users. Every time, the tech industry has a rationale, with some validity, that wide-open access would be a nightmare. But eventually we overcome their barriers, and another layer comes on. And the upstarts become the installed-base, and they make the same mistakes all over again. It's the Internet vs the Un-Internet. And the Internet, it seems, always prevails."
Dave_Winer
internet
control
technology
2011
january 2012 by Preoccupations
Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual... | Final Boss Form
december 2011 by Preoccupations
"Would we even have half of the internet we have now if people like danah and clay waited years to publish their work on online social behavior and community? And, by the way, if you spend any time in a half decent web community, you soon learn that’s it’s nothing but a giant critique machine. The other, smaller problem with this “critique” is that Jeff Jarvis wrote a fucking business book. Faulting him for not wasting hundreds of pages on theory is like faulting Dr. Phil for not citing Abraham Maslow."
Evgeny_Morozov
2011
internet
web
Jeff_Jarvis
december 2011 by Preoccupations
The Internet, innovation and learning - Joi Ito's Web
december 2011 by Preoccupations
"The Internet isn't really a technology, it's a belief system - a philosophy. … the triumph of distributed innovation over centralized innovation. The belief system of the Internet is that everyone should have the freedom to connect, the freedom to innovate and the freedom to hack without asking permission. No one can know the whole of it; it cannot be centrally controlled and the innovation happens in small groups on the "edges" of the network. This belief system has created a massive network of distributed innovators. Internet innovators develop standards with each other and share the products of their work in the form of free and open source software. Lately they are even sharing electronics and physical designs. … We are seeing the emergence of a community of hardware hackers and open hardware designs very reminiscent of the communities of developers who write the open standards and free and open source software of the Internet and I anticipate an explosion of grass-roots innovation around hardware as we saw in software. … Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributions in adulthood. Childlike attributes include learning, idealism, experimentation, wonder, and creativity. In our rapidly changing world, not only do we need to continue to behave more like children - we can teach our children to retain those attributes that will allow them to be the world-changing, innovative adults who will help us reinvent the future." "The Internet, on the other hand, was being designed and deployed by small groups of researchers following the credo "rough consensus and running code," coined by one of its chief architects, David Clark. Instead of a large inter-governmental agency, the standards of the Internet were stewarded by small organizations, which didn't require permission or authority. It functioned by issuing the humbly named "Request for Comment" or RFCs as the way to propose simple and light-weight standards against which small groups of developers could work on the elements that together became the Internet."
Joi_Ito
MIT
2011
neoteny
play
internet
creativity
innovation
RFC
december 2011 by Preoccupations
EU Parliament Massively Commits to Net Neutrality and Open Internet | La Quadrature du Net
november 2011 by Preoccupations
"Paris, November 17th, 2011 – The European Parliament today massively adopted its resolution on Net neutrality, calling on the EU Commission to protect the open Internet, which is put at risk by an increasing number of restrictions imposed by telecoms operators. This overall positive resolution urges EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes to depart from her failed wait-and-see approach by rapidly assessing the need for further regulation to keep the Internet open and free. This votes represent a political commitment by the European Parliament to protecting the Internet from any form of restriction or censorship."
EU
internet
net_neutrality
2011
censorship
from iphone
november 2011 by Preoccupations
Mozilla Fights for the Internet’s Future | The Mozilla Blog
november 2011 by Preoccupations
"we sent Congressional leaders a joint letter together with AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo!, and Zynga raising our concerns with the bill."
2011
censorship
copyright
Moziall
Google
Twitter
Yahoo!
LinkedIn
Zynga
eBay
Facebook
internet
IP
SOPA
USA
november 2011 by Preoccupations
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors on Vimeo
november 2011 by Preoccupations
"Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible."
infrastructure
internet
Vimeo
video
2011
NYC
november 2011 by Preoccupations
Delusions Aside, the Net's Potential Is Real - Zeynep Tufekci - Technology - The Atlantic
november 2011 by Preoccupations
his dismissiveness of the ways in which the Internet can be part of a challenge to authoritarianism and promote citizen empowerment leaves the argument unbalanced and misleading. In the current politico-cultural context, this lopsidedness fits too smoothly with elite cynicism and disdain for change. … I believe that Morozov’s point that the Internet strengthens surveillance, censorship and propaganda capacities of the powerful is well-taken. However, the Net also strengthens the capacity of the people to disseminate information, to organize collective action, and to find points of leverage on powerful institutions that have mostly escaped from traditional structures of accountability. As Morozov warns, politics does not happen in a vacuum and the most receptive audience for his book may well be those who are too eager to proclaim that change is just too hard and that the Internet is inevitably destined to become one more tool in the arsenal of the powerful. I’d like propose that the focus should be on how to build the infrastructure of citizen empowerment, while keeping in mind all the warnings in this timely and important book. The Internet is too young, the process still in too early a stage, to give up on it all just yet."
book_reviews
2011
internet
politics
activism
Evgeny_Morozov
Zeynep_Tufekci
november 2011 by Preoccupations
Founding father wants secure ‘Internet 2’ - FT.com
october 2011 by Preoccupations
"Vint Cerf, known as one of the fathers of the internet, acknowledges that he and co-founder Bob Kahn did not think enough about security when they built the framework for the web. He shares a view held by a growing number of experts that the best way to defend against cyberattacks might be to simply start again. “I would have put a much stronger focus on authenticity or authentication – where did this email come from, what device I am talking to . . . those things are elements that would make a big difference,” Mr Cerf says. … Mr Cerf said the ubiquity of the present internet need not block the adoption of a new version. “I’m actually quite interested in the clean-slate ideas,” Mr Cerf said. “People will say, ‘Oh you can never do that, it’s already too deeply embedded in everything else.’ But you could have said that of the telephone system in 1973, and the internet is replacing the telephone system.”"
FT
2011
Internet
security
authentication
anonymity
Vint_Cerf
october 2011 by Preoccupations
Tom Morris - Internet censors don’t want to be seen as censors
october 2011 by Preoccupations
"I’m so glad to see that the British government learned absolutely nothing from the complete failure of censorware since the 1990s. Still, it’ll teach the next generation how to use Tor and proxies and maybe teach a few how to use SSH and so on."
censorship
internet
UK
2011
october 2011 by Preoccupations
Joe Hewitt
september 2011 by Preoccupations
"The Web is not HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's not DOM, SVG, WebGL, PNG, or Flash. The Web is really just HTTP over TCP/IP. What gets transported over HTTP does not define the Web. … So, my definition of the Web then is resources loaded over the Internet using HTTP and then displayed in a hyperlink-capable client. This definition is liberating. It helps me see a future beyond HTML which is still the Web. I can say now that when I exclaim my love for the Web, it's the freedom of driving the open Internet in a browser that I love, not the rendering technology. Hyperlink traversal matters. The Internet being global and decentralized matters. HTML does not matter. The biggest thing HTML has going for it is that every computer in the world can render it. Not a small benefit, to be sure, but not a reason to limit ourselves to HTML forever. People can and will download new browsers with new rendering engines, given the proper motivation. It just so happens that we're currently in a major transition period, from desktops to mobile touch screen devices, where there is an incentive for people to try new browsers. I wonder, will someone capitalize on that?"
web
HTTP
HTML
2011
browsers
internet
TCP/IP
september 2011 by Preoccupations
My speech to the IAAC | Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent
september 2011 by Preoccupations
"Truth Number One, is that anything that is dismissed on the grounds of the technology-not-being-good-enough-yet is going to happen. We have to tell people this. Fundamental Truth Number two is that the internet is the dominant platform for life in the 21st century. … Fundamental Truth Number Three: That technology changes our expectations of each other." "So, more than our opinions, we are used to, in fact, having our data matter. Don’t be surprised at my meaning of “the social contract” here. People are more sophisticated in their understanding of media than you may think. We know what it means when a service is given to us for free: it means we’re the ones who are being sold. And that’s cool. The handwringing about teenagers exposing themselves on Facebook is based on the idea that they don’t know why Facebook is so keen on that happening. Far from it. We understand the value of our data, we have done the sums and we judged ourselves in profit. If advertisers want to know my preferred brand of whisky, or be allowed access to my travel schedule, and these disclosures gets me Facebook for free, with all its associated social utility and delights, then fine. Fair play. The same for Tesco Clubcard, or Amazon recommendations, or whatever. We sell our data in return for a better world, and we do understand what we’re doing."
Ben_Hammersley
2011
Moore's_Law
internet
web
future
september 2011 by Preoccupations
The Technium: we'll have to get better at believing in the impossible
august 2011 by Preoccupations
"The technium is accelerating the creation of new impossibilities by continuing to invent new social organisations. … Collectively we behave differently than individuals. Much more importantly, as individuals we behave differently in collectives. This has been true a long while. What's new is the velocity at which we a headed into this higher territory of global connectivity. We are swept up in a tectonic shift toward large, fast, social organizations connecting us in novel ways. There may be a million different ways to connect a billion people, and each way will reveal something new about us. Something hidden previously. Others have named this emergence the Noosphere, or MetaMan, or Hive Mind. We don't have a good name for it yet. … Humanity is migrating towards its hive mind. Most of what "everybody knows" about us is based on the human individual. Collectively, connected humans will be capable of things we cannot imagine right now. These future phenomenon will rightly seem impossible. What's coming is so unimaginable that the impossibility of wikipedia will recede into outright obviousness."
Kevin_Kelly
emergence
organisations
social
web
noosphere
internet
2011
august 2011 by Preoccupations
New Statesman - The NS Profile: Tim Berners-Lee
august 2011 by Preoccupations
""What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do."" "“I wanted to build a creative space, something like a sandpit where everyone could play together," he says now. "Life was very simple. I was too busy to think about the bigger questions. I was writing specs for the web, writing the code. My priority was getting more people to use it, looking for communities who might adopt it. I just wanted the thing to take off. … If I had made the web into a product, it would have been in somebody's interest to make an incompatible version of it," he says. … We have to start talking about a human right to connect. … We are still learning the ground rules. Certainly, one-to-one time without any electronics is something that people should treasure. … the World Wide Web is an open platform. I'm pleased that it was designed very cleanly so that programs can talk to each other across the net. It means that there is one information space where you can put everything. … If large corporations control our access to the internet and determine which websites we can go to, we will lose its openness and its democratic nature. We can all help to campaign for the right to connect. … The web is now coming of age. We have to look at it and decide how best to use it for science and technology. I think it can do uniquely important things … When I started the web, I wanted to foster creative interconnectivity, in which people from all around the world can build something together. It's about trying to create a sort of human meta-brain - getting connected brains to function as a greater human brain. With these things, we have to trust in humanity. I think human nature, on balance, is wonderful. If we use the web properly, we can enhance that.""
Tim_Berners-Lee
interview
2011
web
internet
august 2011 by Preoccupations
xinhuanet.com: Britain's U-turn over web-monitoring
august 2011 by Preoccupations
"The British government, once an ardent advocate of absolute Internet freedom, has thus made a U-turn over its stance towards web-monitoring. … We may wonder why western leaders, on the one hand, tend to indiscriminately accuse other nations of monitoring, but on the other take for granted their steps to monitor and control the Internet."
China
internet
censorship
social_media
riots
London
UK
freedom
rights
liberty
free_speech
David_Cameron
surveillance
West
august 2011 by Preoccupations
Repressing the Internet, Western-Style - WSJ.com
august 2011 by Preoccupations
"Technology has empowered all sides in this skirmish: the rioters, the vigilantes, the government and even the ordinary citizens eager to help. But it has empowered all of them to different degrees. … Authoritarian states are monitoring these developments closely. Chinese state media, for one, blamed the riots on a lack of Chinese-style controls over social media. Such regimes are eager to see what kind of precedents will be set by Western officials as they wrestle with these evolving technologies. They hope for at least partial vindication of their own repressive policies. … On Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the government should consider blocking access to social media for people who plot violence or disorder. … We tolerate such drastic proposals only because acts of terror briefly deprive us of the ability to think straight. We are also distracted by the universal tendency to imagine technology as a liberating force; it keeps us from noticing that governments already have more power than is healthy. The domestic challenges posed by the Internet demand a measured, cautious response in the West. … To the rest of the world, the efforts of Western nations, and especially the U.S., to promote democracy abroad have often smacked of hypocrisy. How could the West lecture others while struggling to cope with its own internal social contradictions? … In their concern to stop not just mob violence but commercial crimes like piracy and file-sharing, Western politicians have proposed new tools for examining Web traffic and changes in the basic architecture of the Internet to simplify surveillance. What they fail to see is that such measures can also affect the fate of dissidents in places like China and Iran. Likewise, how European politicians handle online anonymity will influence the policies of sites like Facebook, which, in turn, will affect the political behavior of those who use social media in the Middle East. Should America and Europe abandon any pretense of even wanting to promote democracy abroad? Or should they try to figure out how to increase the resilience of their political institutions in the face of the Internet? As much as our leaders might congratulate themselves for embracing the revolutionary potential of these new technologies, they have shown little evidence of being able to think about them in a nuanced and principled way."
Evgeny_Morozov
WSJ
2011
internet
social_media
riots
London
UK
David_Cameron
control
censorship
surveillance
behavioural_profiling
anonymity
democracy
West
august 2011 by Preoccupations
British court orders ISP to block piracy site Newzbin — Online Video News
july 2011 by Preoccupations
"The real issue is whether the threat forces other internet service providers to follow suit in order to avoid costly action — and which other websites, if any, are deemed to fall under this ruling."
Bobbie_Johnson
2011
copyright
filtering
censorship
internet
piracy
ICT_teaching
july 2011 by Preoccupations
The Technium: Cities Are Immortal; Companies Die
july 2011 by Preoccupations
"Growth is always self-limiting, while evolution is unlimited. Evolution is the infinite game; it remakes itself again and again from within so that its growth cannot catch up or stagnate."
Kevin_Kelly
Long_Now
2011
cities
companies
networks
internet
scale
july 2011 by Preoccupations
STUDY SAYS TECHNOLOGY COULD TRANSFORM SOCIETY - NYTimes.com
june 2011 by Preoccupations
"There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class."
NYT
1982
internet
predictions
network_culture
june 2011 by Preoccupations
Syria's Assad gives tacit OK to online attacks on press - Internet - Committee to Protect Journalists
june 2011 by Preoccupations
""There is the electronic army which has been a real army in virtual reality." Those bolded italics include a direct reference to the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government hacking group. On Twitter, the group thanked al-Assad for the mention, and went on to say on its Facebook page: "Our message to the news agencies and reporters: If you have a shortage of professionals to report the correct news ... the hordes of the Syrian Electronic Army will not be forgiving with you." The statement sits next to a screenshot of the army's most frequent and mildest tactic: encouraging followers to saturate online forums with pro-Assad commentary. The group has taken such actions on American and French politicians' sites, as well as news sites such as that of the BBC. But the army also claims responsibility for more invasive attacks, including defacing websites by exploiting security holes. Their attacks appear aimed more at the lower-hanging fruit of unsecured sites rather those who write critically about Syrian affairs: Past targets have included local town councils in England, Israeli pizza shops, and Australian window sellers. Nonethless, to my knowledge this is the first time a head of state has explicitly approved of such actions. Governments are usually careful to distance themselves from nationalistic hacking groups, even if they tacitly permit it through lack of law enforcement. By mentioning the Electronic Army, al-Assad is signaling his support of computer sabotage and vigilante censorship in the name of his country. At least, that is how his online supporters are likely to interpret his words."
hacking
Syria
internet
Danny_O'Brien
2011
june 2011 by Preoccupations
Social Isolation and New Technology | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
june 2011 by Preoccupations
"“All the evidence points in one direction,” said Prof. Hampton. “People’s social worlds are enhanced by new communication technologies. It is a mistake to believe that internet use and mobile phones plunge people into a spiral of isolation.”"
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technology
social_media
internet
networks
social
Pew
2009
isolation
june 2011 by Preoccupations
On The Network - OTM Sum Up: The Filter Bubble
june 2011 by Preoccupations
"Sum Up: Let’s wring our hands about the internet echo chamber for a guy plugging his book, even though solid social science (that we reported on in 2009) proves that internet use widens our social network, not narrows it. Look, the “filter bubble” is like the Terminator - it’s an interesting sci-fi concept that takes a technology idea and pushes it to its logical extreme. But that’s not how reality works. Not now, not in the future. And it’s provably false right now. How do I know? Because if I was living in a blissful little bubble where I was only exposed to the stuff I liked, I would never have found this story."
Internet
filtering
2011
Derek_Powazek
social_networks
isolation
june 2011 by Preoccupations
olduse.net: a real-time historical exhibit
june 2011 by Preoccupations
"Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago. Also available in your local news reader via nntp.olduse.net."
history
archive
internet
real-time
Usenet
june 2011 by Preoccupations
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors Abroad - NYTimes.com
june 2011 by Preoccupations
"The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks."
USA
internet
Obama
dissent
freedom
censorship
activism
2011
NYT
june 2011 by Preoccupations
United Nations report: Internet access is a human right - latimes.com
june 2011 by Preoccupations
"La Rue also urges governments to eschew laws that allow for people's access to the Internet to be blocked. From the report: "The Special Rapporteur remains concerned that legitimate online expression is being criminalized in contravention of States' international human rights obligations, whether it is through the application of existing criminal laws to online expression, or through the creation of new laws specifically designed to criminalize expression on the Internet. Such laws are often justified as being necessary to protect individuals' reputation, national security or to counter terrorism. However, in practice, they are frequently used to censor content that the Government and other powerful entities do not like or agree with." La Rue describes the Internet as "revolutionary" and unlike any other communication medium such as radio, television or printed publications, which are "based on one-way transmission of information." The Internet, on the other hand, is an "interactive medium" that allows not only for the sharing of information, but also "collaboration in the creation of content," which makes people "no longer passive recipients, but also active publishers of information." As such, the Internet can be a tool of empowerment and aid in the protection of and access to other human rights -- as well as contributing to growth economically, socially and politically -- benefiting mankind as a whole."
UN
UNHRC
human_rights
2011
internet
participatory_culture
june 2011 by Preoccupations
UNHRC: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
june 2011 by Preoccupations
"This report explores key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet. The Special
Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not only to
enable individuals to exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression, but also a
range of other human rights, and to promote the progress of society as a whole. Chapter III
of the report underlines the applicability of international human rights norms and standards
on the right to freedom of opinion and expression to the Internet as a communication
medium, and sets out the exceptional circumstances under which the dissemination of
certain types of information may be restricted. Chapters IV and V address two dimensions
of Internet access respectively: (a) access to content; and (b) access to the physical and
technical infrastructure required to access the Internet in the first place. More specifically,
chapter IV outlines some of the ways in which States are increasingly censoring
information online, namely through: arbitrary blocking or filtering of content;
criminalization of legitimate expression; imposition of intermediary liability; disconnecting
users from Internet access, including on the basis of intellectual property rights law; cyberattacks; and inadequate protection of the right to privacy and data protection. Chapter V
addresses the issue of universal access to the Internet. The Special Rapporteur intends to
explore this topic further in his future report to the General Assembly. Chapter VI contains
the Special Rapporteur’s conclusions and recommendations concerning the main subjects
of the report." https://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee/statuses/78109081755320320: "RT @webfoundation: UN report: "... universal access to the Internet should be a priority for all states" http://tinyurl.com/UN-Net-Right"
UN
UNHRC
human_rights
2011
internet
Tim_Berners-Lee
receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet. The Special
Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not only to
enable individuals to exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression, but also a
range of other human rights, and to promote the progress of society as a whole. Chapter III
of the report underlines the applicability of international human rights norms and standards
on the right to freedom of opinion and expression to the Internet as a communication
medium, and sets out the exceptional circumstances under which the dissemination of
certain types of information may be restricted. Chapters IV and V address two dimensions
of Internet access respectively: (a) access to content; and (b) access to the physical and
technical infrastructure required to access the Internet in the first place. More specifically,
chapter IV outlines some of the ways in which States are increasingly censoring
information online, namely through: arbitrary blocking or filtering of content;
criminalization of legitimate expression; imposition of intermediary liability; disconnecting
users from Internet access, including on the basis of intellectual property rights law; cyberattacks; and inadequate protection of the right to privacy and data protection. Chapter V
addresses the issue of universal access to the Internet. The Special Rapporteur intends to
explore this topic further in his future report to the General Assembly. Chapter VI contains
the Special Rapporteur’s conclusions and recommendations concerning the main subjects
of the report." https://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee/statuses/78109081755320320: "RT @webfoundation: UN report: "... universal access to the Internet should be a priority for all states" http://tinyurl.com/UN-Net-Right"
june 2011 by Preoccupations
Washington moves to classify cyber-attacks as acts of war | World news | The Guardian
may 2011 by Preoccupations
"The move, to be unveiled in a US department of defence strategy document next month, is a significant step towards the militarisation of cyberspace, with huge implications for international law."
USA
2011
Guardian
cyberwar
cyberattacks
internet
war
may 2011 by Preoccupations
Don Tapscott: G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing
may 2011 by Preoccupations
"Sarkozy's problem is that, like other political leaders, he doesn't like medium over which the government does not have final authority. With the Internet's arrival, lofty concepts such as freedom of speech and freedom of thought are actually gaining traction. Prior to this, freedom of speech was meaningful only to those who powerful people who could use the printing presses and broadcast media. … the Internet is changing every institution in society. It enables new approaches to innovation, requiring new thinking about patents and copyright. It renders old institutions naked, requiring more transparency on the part of governments and corporations. It disrupts old models of learning and pedagogy demanding a change a relationship between students and teachers in the learning process. It offers new models of democracy based on a culture of public discourse, in turn compelling old style politicians to engage their citizens. It turns intellectual property into bits, that don't know the old rules that governed atoms of how to behave. It drops the transaction costs of dissent, subjecting dictators and tyrants to the power of mass participation. It breaks down national boundaries and requiring a rethinking of how peoples everywhere can cooperate to solve global problems. And for the first time in history children are an authority on the most important innovation changing every institution in society. Predictably, old style political leaders comfortable with the industrial age are dazed and confused, and many feel threatened. A new communications medium is causing disruption, dislocation and uncertainty. And leaders of old paradigms with vested interests fear what they do not understand, and react with coolness or even hostility. Rather than innovating and opening up they often hunker down, trying to strengthen old outdated rules and approaches."
eG8
internet
Sarkozy
Dan_Tapscott
2011
freedom
openness
may 2011 by Preoccupations
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