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CCR Symposium: We Are The World
posted by Daithi Mac Sithigh
I’d be very interested to read international responses to this paper and the consequences of the actions suggested in it. It’s always intrigued me how debates on speech-related issues differ from place to place, and how what’s taken for granted in the US, for example, is not so in Europe. As so much of the published work on Internet law comes from the United States, it’s only natural that First Amendment considerations be a strong influence on such writing. Harassment, too, can be quite localised, including in some of the situations referred to in Cyber Civil Rights. However, there’s still the obvious crossborder nature of the Internet, meaning that if a problem is identified, the solution – or the constitutional constraints on the solution – require some sort of consideration of non-US law and indeed non-US impact. Here’s a first attempt at opening up that conversation.
April 16, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Posted in: Cyber Civil Rights
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CCR Symposium: Progressive 2.0
posted by Daithi Mac Sithigh
I too congratulate Danielle Citron for her article on Cyber Civil Rights, which has already achieved what must have been one important aim – that of encouraging the community of ‘Internet law’ scholars to reconsider the purpose and value of some fairly established ideas. So far in this symposium, commentators have highlighted the way in which framing the question of online expression as simultaneously one of civil rights can change the desired legislative or regulatory approach. Michael Froomkin adds a further twist, highlighting how it is important to consider the impact of remedial measures on the concept of and right to anonymity. Running the risk of adding another frame, I suggest that we are moving towards a reassessment of the role of the intermediary on the present-day Internet, and I’m hopeful that Prof. Citron’s article might lead towards a new kind of debate, one that goes beyond business-friendly libertarians doing battle with social conservatives while the rest of us look on.
April 15, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Posted in: Cyber Civil Rights
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