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DanielHarris-FirstPaper 8 - 11 Nov 2008 - Main.DanielHarris
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Enhancing free speech with universal broadband Internet access | |
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> | If you're interested in ideas like this, check out NYCInfoLaw. | | | -- By DanielHarris - 14 Feb 2008 | | | Television and radio provide content for consumption. The government has subsidized their expansion partly out of self-interest--radio, for instance, was a critical part of the civil defense planning of the mid-20th century. Government services could be provided more efficiently over the Internet, too. However, the Internet, sold as just another content delivery network, is a two-way communications network with low barriers to entry. One does not need electronics knowledge, license, and spectrum to reach a wide audience over the Internet. | |
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< | If everyone has a server in the home (IPv6 can provide the addresses we need for this to happen), or even if everyone has access to free blog providers, we can give everyone a soapbox without buying 300 million printing presses. Universal reachability and addressability over an always-on connection enables myriad futuristic fantasies, economic development, and technological innovations--a policy argument--but I am argue from principle that equal (or at least high baseline) access to the predominant form of speech is critical to the success of society. | >
> | If everyone has a server in the home (IPv6 can provide the addresses we need for this to happen), or even if everyone has access to free blog providers, we can give everyone a soapbox without buying 300 million printing presses. Universal reachability and addressability over an always-on connection enables myriad futuristic fantasies, economic development, and technological innovations--a policy argument--but I argue from principle that equal (or at least high baseline) access to the predominant form of speech is critical to the success of society. | | | Widespread Internet access enables new categories of speech. Political campaigns have so far failed to capture the advantages Kennedy took from television because they rely on the Internet to distribute existing media: text, photographs, and video. They (and the people--speech is not just for candidates) can take advantage of new categories of collaborative speech. This Wiki is one. "Mashups" of different web services combine data from different sources into new visualizations which can convey their own messages. Perhaps there is a new medium waiting to be discovered, richer than video, which we have not yet imagined. |
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