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Net Neutrality: Why You Should Care
What is net neutrality? It’s the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic equally, not giving preferential treatment to certain users, types of data, or equipment. With FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the way out, nominee Tom Wheeler … Continue reading
Great Gatsby, Copyright, and the Public Domain
Is the Great Gatsby in the public domain? The book was written in 1925 and Fitzgerald passed away in 1940. Copyright generally expires 70 years after the author’s death, so you could be forgiven for thinking the answer is “yes.” If … Continue reading
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Tagged books, copyright, culture, data, economics, education, entertainment, fun, hacker politics, history, how-to, internet politics, law, legislation, literature, micro-institutions everywhere, movies, nerd, online politics, politics, public opinion, rhetoric, SOPA, technology
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Internet Sales Tax FAQ
We’ve got a week of Internet politics-related topics queued up for you this week. Today we’ll take a look at the prospect of an internet sales tax. Later in the week we’ll discuss why The Great Gatsby still isn’t in the public … Continue reading
Etiquette in the Digital Age
It happens whenever new communication technology comes into widespread use. Standard forms of behavior that worked well in the past are less suitable for the new medium. When the telephone was invented, people were unsure how to greet the caller. … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, culture, etiquette, internet politics, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, nerd, norms, online politics, politics, rhetoric, rules
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Ruby’s Benevolent Dictator
The first version of the Ruby programming language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, better known as “Matz,” in 1995. Since then it has become especially popular for web development thanks to the advent of Rails by DHH. A variety of … Continue reading
Hackers vs. Diplomats
Katherine Maher’s Foreign Policy piece got a lot of (deserved) attention last week. If the topic interests you, go read the whole thing. I’ll highlight the parts that are most relevant to our recent conversations on internet politics. On the … Continue reading
The Roman Internet
Terence Eden asks why the Romans didn’t invent the internet: What I find interesting is that there was nothing fundamentally to stop the Romans – or any other ancient civilization – from creating such a network. The Greeks experimented with … Continue reading
The Economist on Internet Politics
On Monday I gave a round-up of my posts on internet politics over the past year or so. Recently The Economist wrote a similar review. It is worth reading in full if this topic interests you. In this post we … Continue reading
Internet Politics Round-Up
2012 was a busy year for followers of internet politics. The SOPA controversy began in late 2011, and really picked up steam with the blackout protest on January 18. Later that month we shared news of the arrest of an … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, crime, culture, data, economics, education, elections, fun, international relations, internet politics, micro-institutions, online politics, politics, programming, public opinion, rationality, research, security, technology
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US Defends Internet Freedom at WCIT
An update on the WCIT, which we have talked about here before. From Forbes last week: For the last two weeks some of the planet’s most oppressive regimes have faced off against some of the most powerful Internet advocates in … Continue reading
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