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Tania Sheko's List: Internet
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Jul 01, 13
"The Internet’s current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true “netizens.”"
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Jul 01, 13
"A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989."
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Aaron Swartz co-founded Demand Progress, an activist group to prevent Internet censorship. Swartz was a leader in the fight against the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) that would have given the government broad powers to shut down any website suspected of sharing unlicensed copyrighted content.
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Swartz wrote a script to download millions of PACER documents that he released for sharing online.
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Why was he being charged with 13 felonies?
His motive was political — obviously. His harm was exactly none — as JSTOR effectively acknowledged. But he deserved, your “career prosecutors” believed, to be deprived of his rights as a citizen (aka, a “felon,” no longer entitled to the political rights he fought to perfect) because of what he did.
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Dec 02, 14
Part of history is telling stories. It's about privileging some type of information over others, forming a narrative that helps us make sense of the world. These overviews are important, as they help us orient ourselves toward the future — in ways...
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Jan 02, 15
"internet Rising: documentary" - worth watching #ecmp355 #ecmp455 #edchat http://t.co/LTzcXcHWMD
– Alec Couros (courosa) http://twitter.com/courosa/status/550899514375016448 -
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