Month: December 2005
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freedom, control, and command
Ok, so I’ve been playing with this idea of tension between control and command as an paradigm of societies and it occurs to me, while reading Cass Sunstein’s republic.com that there is more depth to that than I recognized initially. Sunstein’s argument in the opening chapters is that the liberty to not encounter ideas, people,…
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Speech, Anonymity, and Networks
Ross Mayfield, who I read on the corporate-as-in-many blog, Many 2 Many has some things to say about anonymity and the press to regulate it, either in a market commodity sense or a civil ordinance sense, or both, stemming from someone being irked over entries made in Wikipedia about them, which they contend are libelous.…