Summer 2025
Created Thursday 21 August 2025
Week 11 - Wrapping Up
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nationalize-internet-net-neutrality/
https://solmaz.io/thoughts/digital-hygiene-feeds/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/02/outdated-and-misleading-is-it-time-to-reassess-the-very-concept-of-money?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us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://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
An unfortunate perfect storm all around:
https://fortune.com/2025/07/26/tea-app-hack-images-online-leaks-users-selfies/
The future?
https://www.freedombox.org/
Week 10 - AI and FAI, etc
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-conversational-ais-like-chatgpt-work-ivan-voras/
https://weaviate.io/blog/how-ai-creates-art
Longer:
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/
https://futurism.com/singularity-explain-it-to-me-like-im-5-years-old
vs
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/24/everything-not-mandatory/#is-prohibited
Week 9 - FAI II
Review 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 8 - 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 7 - Privacy and Policy, cont'd
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 6 - 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
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
Week 5 - 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
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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/
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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 4 - Intro to Privacy and Verification
Note: You *will* find discrepancies among the below readings, and that is part of the point.
https://jrm4.com/slides/Privacy_and_Verification.html
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/
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://www.zdnet.com/article/7-password-rules-security-experts-live-by-in-2025-the-last-one-might-surprise-you/
time permitting:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/21/cryptocurrency-explainer/
Week 3 - Internet Regulation
https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-5411_Telecom_And_Internet.html
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
The Internet: Computer Network Hierarchy | HowStuffWorks
How big telecom smothers city run broadband
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
The coronavirus crisis proves internet should be a public utility
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/03/nx-s1-5247840/net-neutrality-fcc-struck
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/07/federal-consumer-protection-is-dead-the-fate-of-net-neutrality-warned-you-it-was-coming/
Week 1
If you need the refresher-- Journal:2021:01:03:Basic-Civics
Intro to Info Policy
On Econ
https://acroll.substack.com/p/what-comes-after-the-attention-economy
On Law
Transcendental Nonsense
The Law of the Horse
Telecom
http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/471/hout/telecomHistory/
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/building-the-bell-system
Backlinks: FSU Courses:LIS5411:Older Readings