[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> The Economist: Geolocation

[Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jim Carrico wrote:

> >According to Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law
> >professor, „the notion that governments can't regulate hangs upon a
> >particular architecture of the Net.¾ As the Internet's architecture changes
> >and becomes more complex, with the addition of services like filtering and
> >geolocation, the idea that the Internet is beyond the reach of local laws
> >and government regulation looks less and less tenable.
> 
> 
> nice bait-and-switch there!  Lessig makes the first point, in order to
> sound the alarm that the freedoms we take for granted (like anonymous
> speech for instance) are being eroded by governments who are bent on
> changing the internet's architecture specifically for this purpose. The
> second statement suggests that Lessig's attitude is harmonious with the
> point of the essay (that internet regulation is inevitable) - while in
> fact Lessig is wearing out his shoes and his voice travelling the world
> with the opposite intent. The point is to ask what kind of internet we
> want, and what we need to do to get it:  there is no inevitable.

Dont have the URL at hand, but Lessig once described a global filtering
system that would fit without limiting the rights people have in their own
country.

H.


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