Older Readings
Created Wednesday 03 January 2024
Week 15 - Wrapping up
Hope.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/31/coders-of-the-world-unite-can-silicon-valley-workers-curb-the-power-of-big-tech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nationalize-internet-net-neutrality/
https://solmaz.io/thoughts/digital-hygiene-feeds/
http://www.businessinsider.com/screen-time-limits-bill-gates-steve-jobs-red-flag-2017-10?r=UK&IR=T
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42030109
http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
And, not mandatory, but a good start:
Probably start here and rewind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCczbSF-B8#t=28m26s
and then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1s7Mo3sac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khO76Mpo9dg
More if you're really starved..
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/war-on-gp-computing-farnell.html
Week 14 - Money
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/02/outdated-and-misleading-is-it-time-to-reassess-the-very-concept-of-money?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economics/64492/the-end-of-money-cashless-society
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145297807/crypto-crash-ftx-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/21/cryptocurrency-explainer/
https://jrm4.com/Journal/2021/06/16/Why_Cryptocurrency_is_Here_to_Stay.html
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2016/04/17/why-many-smart-contract-use-cases-are-simply-impossible/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbwj5/what-are-nft-explainer-meaning-crypto
Week 13 - Access and E-Government
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
Interesting contrarian perspective: https://www.osnews.com/story/6282/the-command-line-the-best-newbie-interface/
Accessibility
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6164/4898
https://www.vox.com/recode/22351108/dark-patterns-ui-web-design-privacy
https://fabrity.com/blog/ux-ui/voice-user-interfaces-the-future-of-ui/
State of things
https://www.state.gov/m/irm/rls/115901.htm
https://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2011/02/03/pacer-recap-and-the-movement-to-free-american-case-law/
http://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/Main/DC0B20B7DC22B7418525791B006A54E[[http://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/Main/DC0B20B7DC22B7418525791B006A54E4|4]]
https://www.good.is/articles/florida-man-sunshine-laws-transparency
ALA Policy (review)
http://www.ala.org/asgcla/resources/libraryservices
https://www.siteimprove.com/glossary/ada-compliance/
Week 12 - FAI III - Now and Future
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/streaming-libraries-dvds-blu-rays.html
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23617624/pluto-tv-dmca-mpa-github-playlists
Piracy?
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/24/everything-not-mandatory/#is-prohibited
Week 11 - FAI II - Recent / History
Review Trademark, Patent LAw and Copyright from below, and:
Alternate Modes
COMPULSORY LICENSING?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_licensing
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/music-copyright-compulsory-cover-license.html
Orphan Works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_work
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/10/orphan-works-copyright-reform-fails-in-wake-of-bailout-bid/
Piracy?
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
DMCA (as a model for prediction of consequences)
https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/dmcapdf.pdf (skim for pertinent info)
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/ten-years-later/
https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2014.pdf
GNU GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/open-source-licensing
https://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contract/
Week 10 - Freely Available Information
The Basics:
The Four Types of Intellectual Property Protection - GameAcademy.com
TRADEMARK
Trademark law - Modern Wiki - Fandom
PATENT LAW
Patent Law: Everything You Need to Know
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Basics
Rethinking things:
Intellectual? Property?
Did You Say Intellectual Property? Its a Seductive Mirage
Property Rights and Intellectual Property
Heavy ideas: Compare Anarchism Triumphant with Enforcing Copyright
Week 9 - Privacy and Policy
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
https://web.archive.org/web/20210817005525/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/26/constitution-digital-privacy-loopholes-purchases/
https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/
http://www.livescience.com/37398-right-to-privacy.html
The Right of Privacy: Is it Protected by the Constitution?
Privacy Paper
Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance | Data protection | The Guardian
Snowden warns new surveillance measures will outlast the coronavirus
European Commission
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/09/ixnay-on-the-webcams/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/protecting-privacy-in-an-ai-driven-world/
Week 8 - Social Media
Social Media Is a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Mind
Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition | Facebook | The Guardian
Battling coronavirus misinformation in the age of social media | Coronavirus | The Guardian
For Rogue Twitter, You Need Burner Phone, Anonymous Email
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktokers-speculate-meta-tiktok-ban/
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-facebook-dystopian-whistleblower-leaks-experts.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/29/22752850/mastodon-trump-truth-social-network-open-source-gab-legal-notice
https://www.fastcompany.com/90886959/twitter-alternatives-mastodon-t2-post-bluesky
Week 7 - Anonymity and Social Surplus
What Is Tor and Why Should I Use It?
This is what a Tor Supporter looks like: Laura Poitras | Tor Blog
No guarantees here, for information only: https://uglyduck.ca/blog-anonymously/
Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept | by Mark Suster | Both Sides of the Table
Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online 'Has To Go Away' | HuffPost
The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of 'Friends' | WIRED
Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance | Data protection | The Guardian
The Right to Read
—
Weath of Networks - Chapter 1
Playing With Toys While People are Dying | by Paul Kilduff-Taylor | Medium
Online communities are the best thing about the Internet - Biznology
How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It - The New York Times
Teens Arent Partying Anymore
Cognitive Surplus - a more moral choice
https://onezero.medium.com/the-gig-economy-is-failing-say-hello-to-the-hustle-economy-13ae3aa91954
https://time.com/4370834/sharing-economy-gig-capitalism/
-
https://www.investopedia.com/the-great-work-from-home-migration-5184172
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/pandemic-sparks-labor-reckoning-job-anymore/story?id=77870374
Week 6 - Intro to Privacy and Verification
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/
aka "I was right, 3rd party password managers are a bad idea"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/03/03/why-you-should-stop-using-lastpass-after-new-hack-method-update/?sh=40d52d5c28fc
https://bitcoinist.com/ledger-expose-bitcoins-private-keys-subpoena/
The tech
How internet encryption works | Data protection | The Guardian
Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (full version) - YouTube
TrueCrypt audit shows no sign of NSA backdoors, just some minor glitches | PCWorld
What is Cryptographic Hashing? MD5, SHA, and More
https://www.troyhunt.com/we-didnt-encrypt-your-password-we-hashed-it-heres-what-that-means/
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/21/cryptocurrency-explainer/
Week 5 - Internet Regulation
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
The Internet: Computer Network Hierarchy | HowStuffWorks
How big telecom smothers city run broadband
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will
Nationalize the Internet: Why the Fight for Net Neutrality Is Just the Start
Ending net neutrality will end Internet as we know it: Wozniak Copps
The coronavirus crisis proves internet should be a public utility
- (new)
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210104/08093445992/could-digital-divide-unite-us.shtml
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/
Week 4 - Telecommunications Regulation
wow the TIMING: in the news this week: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/02/los-angeles-passes-rule-banning-broadband-deployment-discrimination/
Federal Communications Commission
A short history of the telephone industry and regulation
The Invisible Barbecue
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/05/how-the-robber-barons-hijacked-the-victorian-internet/
AT and T
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/09/how-att-conquered-the-20th-century/
https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/one-on-one-tim-wu-author-of-the-master-switch/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/carterfone-40-years/
Wireless and scarcity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28452-2004May14.html
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/09/reform-groups-protect-free-speech-but-save-the-red-lion.ars
Week 3 - Law and Civics
Review last week's law material, and
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19460171.2015.1052003
Browse:
Federal Digital Policy
New (in case you need a refresher?)
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizenship/Citizenship%20Resource%20Center%20Site/Publications/PDFs/M-638_red.pdf
Week 2 - Intro to Info Policy
The Econ I'm (not) talking about
How economics became a religion
On Econ
Wealth of Networks - Benkler
The Attention Economy and the Net
On Law
https://www.jurist.org/rule-of-law- materials/
Transcendental Nonsense
The Law of the Horse
Zoom Link and teams
Week 11 - Hope
Hope.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/31/coders-of-the-world-unite-can-silicon-valley-workers-curb-the-power-of-big-tech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nationalize-internet-net-neutrality/
https://solmaz.io/thoughts/digital-hygiene-feeds/
http://www.businessinsider.com/screen-time-limits-bill-gates-steve-jobs-red-flag-2017-10?r=UK&IR=T
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42030109
http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
And, not mandatory, but a good start:
Probably start here and rewind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCczbSF-B8#t=28m26s
and then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1s7Mo3sac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khO76Mpo9dg
More if you're really starved..
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/war-on-gp-computing-farnell.html
Week 10 - FAI Finalized
Review last week and
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/stable-diffusion-copyright-lawsuits-could-be-a-legal-earthquake-for-ai/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/sarah-silverman-sues-openai-meta-copyright-infringement
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/6/22820318/youtube-copyright-claims-transparency-report
https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-thwarts-youts-attempt-to-declare-youtube-ripping-legal-221002/
https://worldofmatthew.com/technology/amazon-itunes-deception/
https://www.economist.com/business/2017/09/30/a-right-to-repair-movement-tools-up
for information only ☺
https://annas-blog.org/blog-how-to-become-a-pirate-archivist.html
Week 9 - FAI Continued
Review last weeks Copyright and Patent Material, and:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/youtubes-new-lawsuit-shows-just-how-far-copyright-trolls-have-go-theyre-stopped
https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown
https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/offline-book-lending-costs-us.html
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/why-sci-hub-matters/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210519/06365746826/redditors-launch-rescue-mission-embattled-sci-hub-with-ultimate-aim-building-decentralized-version.shtml
Alternate Modes
COMPULSORY LICENSING?
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/music-copyright-compulsory-cover-license.html
Orphan Works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_work
GNU GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/open-source-licensing
https://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contract/
https://www.bloombergquint.com/opinion/non-fungible-tokens-and-copyright-law-a-nifty-dilemma
https://coingeek.com/the-nft-craze-is-being-driven-ignorance/
Week 8 - Freely Available Information
The Basics:
The Four Types of Intellectual Property Protection - GameAcademy.com
TRADE SECRET
Iron Man's Suit Isn't Patented, It's A Trade Secret (Seriously) | Litigation & Trial
TRADEMARK
Trademark law | Modern Wiki | Fandom
PATENT LAW
Patent Law: Everything You Need to Know
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Basics
Rethinking things:
Intellectual? Property?
Did You Say Intellectual Property? Its a Seductive Mirage
Property Rights and Intellectual Property
Heavy ideas: Compare Anarchism Triumphant with Enforcing Copyright
Week 7 - Access
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
Interesting contrarian perspective: https://www.osnews.com/story/6282/the-command-line-the-best-newbie-interface/
Accessibility
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6164/4898
https://www.vox.com/recode/22351108/dark-patterns-ui-web-design-privacy
https://fabrity.com/blog/ux-ui/voice-user-interfaces-the-future-of-ui/
ALA Policy (review)
http://www.ala.org/asgcla/resources/libraryservices
https://www.siteimprove.com/glossary/ada-compliance/
Week 6 - Privacy and Policy
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
https://web.archive.org/web/20210817005525/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/26/constitution-digital-privacy-loopholes-purchases/
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
Right to Privacy: Constitutional Rights & Privacy Laws | Live Science
The Right of Privacy: Is it Protected by the Constitution?
Privacy Paper
Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance | Data protection | The Guardian
Snowden warns new surveillance measures will outlast the coronavirus
European Commission
Week 5 - Social Media
../2023-Summer - LIS5411-Social Media.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text
Social Media Is a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Mind
Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition | Facebook | The Guardian
Battling coronavirus misinformation in the age of social media | Coronavirus | The Guardian
For Rogue Twitter, You Need Burner Phone, Anonymous Email
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktokers-speculate-meta-tiktok-ban/
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-facebook-dystopian-whistleblower-leaks-experts.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/29/22752850/mastodon-trump-truth-social-network-open-source-gab-legal-notice
https://www.fastcompany.com/90886959/twitter-alternatives-mastodon-t2-post-bluesky
Week 4 - Anonymity and Social Surplus
../2022- LIS5411-anonymity.pdf
What Is Tor and Why Should I Use It?
This is what a Tor Supporter looks like: Laura Poitras | Tor Blog
No guarantees here, for information only: https://uglyduck.ca/blog-anonymously/
Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept | by Mark Suster | Both Sides of the Table
Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online 'Has To Go Away' | HuffPost
The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of 'Friends' | WIRED
Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance | Data protection | The Guardian
The Right to Read
—
Weath of Networks - Chapter 1
Playing With Toys While People are Dying | by Paul Kilduff-Taylor | Medium
Online communities are the best thing about the Internet - Biznology
How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It - The New York Times
Teens Arent Partying Anymore
Cognitive Surplus - a more moral choice
https://onezero.medium.com/the-gig-economy-is-failing-say-hello-to-the-hustle-economy-13ae3aa91954
https://time.com/4370834/sharing-economy-gig-capitalism/
-
https://www.investopedia.com/the-great-work-from-home-migration-5184172
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/pandemic-sparks-labor-reckoning-job-anymore/story?id=77870374
Week 3 - Intro to Privacy and Verification
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/
aka "I was right, 3rd party password managers are a bad idea"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/03/03/why-you-should-stop-using-lastpass-after-new-hack-method-update/?sh=40d52d5c28fc
https://bitcoinist.com/ledger-expose-bitcoins-private-keys-subpoena/
The tech
How internet encryption works | Data protection | The Guardian
Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (full version) - YouTube
TrueCrypt audit shows no sign of NSA backdoors, just some minor glitches | PCWorld
What is Cryptographic Hashing? MD5, SHA, and More
https://www.troyhunt.com/we-didnt-encrypt-your-password-we-hashed-it-heres-what-that-means/
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/21/cryptocurrency-explainer/
Week 2 - Internet Regulation
Federal Communications Commission
A short history of the telephone industry and regulation
The Invisible Barbecue
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
The Internet: Computer Network Hierarchy | HowStuffWorks
How big telecom smothers city run broadband
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will
Nationalize the Internet: Why the Fight for Net Neutrality Is Just the Start
Ending net neutrality will end Internet as we know it: Wozniak Copps
The coronavirus crisis proves internet should be a public utility
- (new)
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210104/08093445992/could-digital-divide-unite-us.shtml
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/
Week 1 - Intro to Info Policy (2023-05-15)
The Econ I'm (not) talking about
How economics became a religion
On Econ
Wealth of Networks - Benkler
The Attention Economy and the Net
On Law
Transcendental Nonsense
The Law of the Horse