Net Neutrality Is Digital Free Speech

21Aug09

Just as the U.S Congress is about to debate the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, and before the Telecom Package discussion resumes later this fall, one could regret that the concept of openness of our communications infrastructure is not more salient in the public debate.
What is about anyway? And why does it matter?
An open communications infrastructure [...]

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Tags: Copyright, Democracy, Free Speech, Intellectual Property, Internet, Lessig, Media, Net Neutrality, Network, Progress, Telecom, United States

Could the Internet End Up Killing the Public Sphere?

03Mar09

A few weeks ago, the French Journal Le Débat published a compelling piece by Benjamin Loveluck entitled “Internet: Toward a Radical Democracy?“. The author, who is writing a Ph.D thesis on “the hypermodern individual and the genealogy of contemporary media regimes” (sic), successfully locates the recent developments of the internet within the history of liberal-democracies. [...]

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Tags: Blogging, Copyright, Cultural industries, Democracy, Google, Intellectual Property, Internet, Journalism, Lessig, New Media, Philosophy

The Freedom to Digitalize Revolutionary Powers

07Oct08

In On Liberty (1859), philosopher John Stuart Mill reflects on the potential coercion that could result from democracy and more especially from what Alexi De Tocqueville called the “tyranny of the majority”.
In this work, Mill formulates a very convincing plea in favor of free speech. According to him, only by discussion can we test the [...]

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Tags: Democracy, Free Speech, Media, Philosophy