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Created Tuesday 04 May 2021
Week 12 - 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
Week 11 - Surveillance and Data Collection in Practice
Review:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120615000006/https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/12/opinion/facebook-google-privacy-policies.html
https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/
The law:
http://www.livescience.com/37398-right-to-privacy.html
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1108268
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/can-we-be-saved-from-facebook-629567/
Week 10 - Social Media
http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/modern-media-is-a-dos-attack-on-your-free-will
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/how-facebook-robbed-us-of-our-sense-of-self
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/can-we-be-saved-from-facebook-629567/
https://gizmodo.com/why-rss-feeds-still-beat-facebook-and-twitter-for-track-1800722740
https://gizmodo.com/rss-is-better-than-twitter-1833624929
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/27/parler-ceo-wants-liberal-to-join-the-pro-trump-crowd-on-the-app.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/weaponized-facebook-fails-protect-civil-rights-audit-says-n1233143
Week 9 - Anonymity
REVIEW LAW
Tor
http://lifehacker.com/what-is-tor-and-should-i-use-it-1527891029
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-laura-poitras
Anonymity?
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/09/21/why-pseudonymity-is-such-an-important-concept-and-what-anybeat-is-doing-about-it/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/randi-zuckerberg-anonymity-online_n_910892.html
Voting:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/06/estonians-get-to-vote-online-why-cant-america/
http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/21/watch-how-quick-it-is-to-vote-in-the-most-advanced-democracy-on-earth-estonia/
READING:
https://free.law/2015/09/17/the-right-to-read-anonymously/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/north-korea/
(time permitting:)
How Bitcoin Works
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/21/cryptocurrency-explainer/
Week 8 - Intro to Privacy- Technical and Legal Secrecy
The tech:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/05/how-internet-encryption-works
Excellent intuitive explanation of the seemingly impossible part of cryptography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do
Apple's Method
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/why-cant-apple-decrypt-your-iphone.html
Hashing for Verification
http://www.howtogeek.com/67241/htg-explains-what-are-md5-sha-1-hashes-and-how-do-i-check-them/
https://tiptopsecurity.com/what-is-cryptographic-hashing-md5-sha-and-more/
The law:
http://www.livescience.com/37398-right-to-privacy.html
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1108268
Week 7 - Direct Regulation
History of Regulation
https://web.archive.org/web/20050129100111/https://museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/federalcommu/federalcommu.htm
http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/471/hout/telecomHistory/
http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/barbecue.html
The Internet
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-infrastructure1.htm
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/how-wireless-mesh-networks-work.htm
The barriers
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/08/28/15404/how-big-telecom-smothers-city-run-broadband
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/paax9n/rural-america-is-building-its-own-internet-because-no-one-else-will
NET NEUTRALITY
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nationalize-internet-net-neutrality/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/29/ending-net-neutrality-will-end-internet-we-know-steve-wozniak-michael-copps-column/704861001/
https://qz.com/1826043/the-coronavirus-crisis-proves-internet-should-be-a-public-utility/
Week 6 - Responses in IP
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/serving-big-company-interests-copyright-crisis
https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown
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://library.osu.edu/blogs/copyright/2015/07/29/copyright-as-an-instrument-for-censorship/
Week 5 - Copyright and Controversy
LIBRARIANSHIP?
https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
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://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/02/19/the-unstoppable-rise-of-sci-hub-how-does-a-new-generation-of-researchers-perceive-sci-hub/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
MOVIES
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/439759688/you-a-big-fan-of-aggressive-ip-enforcement-like
wow, I'm linking to cracked:
http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-687-12-inventions-created-by-different-people-at-same-time/
Week 4 - Intellectual Property Basics Continued
(obviously, review last weeks' readings because we didn't get to Copyright/Patent/Trademark), and also
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/serving-big-company-interests-copyright-crisis
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/an_art_history_book_minus_the_art/
http://www.lessig.org/2008/10/a-lesson-in-the-failures-of-fa/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/fair-use-prevails-as-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-copyright-case/
Week 3 - Freely Available Information
NOTE: we will certainly cover "the basics" below, at least up to Trademark. The "heavy stuff" thus may be postponed. Take a look, but don't get bogged down.
The basics:
https://www.gameacademy.com/the-four-types-of-intellectual-property-protection/
TRADEMARK, (skim. You find the best stuff in the oddest places sometimes)
http://modernsociety.wikia.com/wiki/Trademark_law
PATENT
https://www.upcounsel.com/patent-law
http://goo.gl/qFVt
COPYRIGHT
https://cyber.harvard.edu/property/library/copyprimer.html
Intellectual? Property?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/coffee.htm
skim for now - POLICY DOCUMENT - Starting "light"
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf
(the heavy stuff)
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html
and compare and contrast with
https://web.archive.org/web/20080720143500/http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6529387.html
Browse : https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
(Take special note of the "fifth" fair use factor)
https://undark.org/article/fair-use-become-unfair/
Week 2 - Law and Policy
Review:
http://people.tamu.edu/~braman/bramanpdfs/027_Braman_Chapt1.pdf
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/waldron-cohen.pdf
https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/finalhls.pdf
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 1 - Economics, Law, and the 'net
http://people.tamu.edu/~braman/bramanpdfs/027_Braman_Chapt1.pdf
The Econ I'm (not) talking about
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion
The net's impact
http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_1.pdf
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/519/440
On "Law"
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/waldron-cohen.pdf
https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/finalhls.pdf
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