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May 16, 2018 · Lessig’s groundbreaking paper describes four types of constraints that together regulate behavior – law, social norms, the market, and architecture – and argues that due to its special architecture, cyberspace is different from “real” space and thus subject to new possibilities for control by governments and other centers of power.
- The Regulations of Code
- Other Architectures
- Making Choices About Values
The basic code of the Internet implements a set of protocols called TCP/IP. These protocols enable the exchange of data among interconnected networks. This exchange occurs without the networks knowing the content of the data, or without any true idea of who in real life the sender of a given bit of data is. This code is neutral about the data, and ...
What makes the net unregulable is that it is hard to tell who someone is, and hard to know the character of the content being delivered. Both of these features are now changing. Architectures for facilitating identification--or, more generally, for certifying facts about the user (that he is over 18; that he is a he; that he is an American; that he...
So should we have a role in choosing this code, if this code will choose our values? Should we care about how values emerge here? In another time, this would have been an odd question. Self-government is all about tracking and modifying influences that affect fundamental values--or, as I described them at the start, regulations that affect liberty....
Jul 2, 2018 · Lessig’s groundbreaking paper describes four types of constraints that together regulate behavior – law, social norms, the market, and architecture – and argues that due to its special architecture, cyberspace is different from “real” space and thus subject to new possibilities for control by governments and other centers of power.
What does it mean to say that someone is “regulated”? How is that regulation achieved? * * * Behavior, we might say, is regulated by four kinds of constraints. Law is just one of those constraints. Law (in at least one of its aspects) orders people to behave in certain ways; it threatens punishment if they do not obey.
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Lessig’s approach also considers two different kinds of regulation — direct and indirect. In the former regulation is directly applicable to the targeted individual, in the latter the restraint focuses on another restraint that, in its turn, will be effective in achieving the actual regulation goal.
Oct 24, 2023 · Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet. After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you’d...
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Jan 14, 2013 · Professor Larry Lessig, the most famous legal scholar of the internet gave his chair lecture today in Harvard Law’s Ames Courtroom, which was packed with students, professors, and community members.
