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 Okay, so I've slept on this for a couple weeks now.. and although I'm now well-slept, I'm still clueless as to how I could "fix" this paper. I'm afraid it's terminally flawed. The fatal flaw, as Prof. Moglen's red ink pretty well illustrates, is that the paper is dishonest. It's presented as logic, but withdraws to the comforts of satire where logic is unhelpful or inconvenient. But I can't just strip the paper down and rebuild it as logical, because that would bring me to the logical conclusion that privacy matters and I should care. And I've already married myself to the conclusion that privacy matters and I don't care.

So.. what to do. The fact of the matter is that my classmates and I viewed Law & the Internet Society as a cerebral, enlightening experience. We'd rave about it long after class was over. And both we and the people to whom we raved are still on Facebook. No one I know has taken any meaningful remedial measures to guard our privacy, or to help sculpt a world in which privacy and social networking may fruitfully coexist. I think we've all subordinated logic to rationalization, and the arguments in my original paper (below) are an attempt to profile that act of subordination. If I needed the self-flattery, I'd label it performance art.


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