Lawrence Lessig on Internet Pornography Censorship (part 1)

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Description: Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." Professor Lessig is the author of five books: Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999) and Code 2.0 (2006). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. He is founder of Creative Commons and much loved :) View his blog at: lessig.org/blog Share with friends
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theletter23 ::: Favorites i like that idea. then i would be able to go on google and click "display tagged items only" lol 07-07-21 12:34:16 _____________________________________________________
jubjubs123 ::: Favorites okey so i don't like this guy, i mean this internet blocking idea is just bad! There are children rights that can fight this idea. lets start with the freedom of speech also redeems that you can chose as what you see in the goggle search bar, doesn't that almost fall apon the same idea of the freedom of speech? yes this is a good idea but goes agianst more then one right. send em somthing telling me what you think TheCast? i want to get your insite. 07-07-21 21:10:38 _____________________________________________________
ilys2222 ::: Favorites Lawrence Lessig is a fag, ask the fucking kids, and make em speak their minds on the freakin video,the dude could make up figures for all we know, lol. 07-07-22 18:31:06 _____________________________________________________
Rapunzel2U ::: Favorites Well, I'm underage and I like my porn. I don't want my mom to come busting in and making it impossible for me to get what I want. Sure, block for 10 and under, but I want teens to continue to have the right to view porn. But oh, I forgot- teens aren't real people, their opinions don't matter, only their parents. I think there does need to be a solution to block porn from elementary age kids but not for other people. This is not that solution but I bet a lot of people are going to think it is. 07-07-22 22:06:24 _____________________________________________________
RSFeed ::: Favorites Rated:** Where is your take on this Mac?! I think: There is the MPAA Rating for Film content, adjust it to the Internet, wright? Wrong! Problem is we get a few hundred films a year and a few thousand submissions to the Internet a day, meaning it would be the content makers decision on the rating of the page, US doesn't have an easy time implementing it's laws outside theyr borders and if that wasn't enough, just lie about the "tag" and it's back to square one. Too big discussion to have here. 07-07-23 14:17:37 _____________________________________________________
uexpkiller ::: Favorites is he dumb? Accidentally came upon porn? lmfao im on the net alot and i dont come upon it unless i search for it. The internet is a huge place for porn, b/c it can be shown to a huge variety of many people in a short period of time. 07-07-23 20:05:37 _____________________________________________________
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Ultralibertarian ::: Favorites This idea is far older then internet itself. In a library they are using Dewey for categorizing. If we adopt this to internet generally, and search engine specially, it would be possible to do all what Lawrence wants, and much more. Maybe we need a less complex system than Devey on the net so that everybody are able to use it effectly who are making pages on the net. 07-07-24 11:05:42 _____________________________________________________
Ultralibertarian ::: Favorites % This could be done to get more precise hits when we search. Filtering stuff parents don't want their kids to see, yet, is only a (nice) side effect that can be put in as a function of a browser as a parent control where some part of the filter needs a password, which only the parents got off course. 07-07-24 11:07:02 _____________________________________________________
Ultralibertarian ::: Favorites Main reason why this is a good idea is my ability to filter out astrology when what I really am interresting in is astrology, knowing that a general search engine will give me hits on both, just because astrologists like to belive they are astronomists and often use that word in their religious pages. This idea can be pushed forward, without ANY laws, without ANY politicans, without ANY dumb ass who want to make money on filter tools. 07-07-24 11:07:47 _____________________________________________________
Ultralibertarian ::: Favorites It can all be done by updating html with a few more tags, and we know how programmers love them, and it will spread all over the net like fire in dry grass, and we all will inhale. 07-07-24 11:09:16 _____________________________________________________