Reading 7
Chapter 12
I agree with him that copywrite is a very good thing, but tends to get abused to easily. Even though many works should be in the public domain, it is getting harder and harder to get access to them anyway. If I want a hard copy I'm happy to pay for the cost of that, but reading them online should be easy and low cost.
A Czech author Chapek, used to be in the public domain, but the government decided to remove it and put it back in the private domain.
I think the idea of expanding the converstation after reading material is a great idea. Something like what newsvine does for news could be done for books.
Chapter 9 Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust
This chapter basically says that we need to use common sense when reading things online. We shouldnt just assume everything is true. You know why, because normal people make up the internet. Would you trust everything some stranger told you on the street? Would you trust your uncles latest rambling without verifying anything? Probably not. But you would trust a professor or other valid sourse that you trust.
Great. So his suggestions on how to know what to trust or not on the internet is to find out who they are, then we can know weather to trust them or not. But then admits that would destroy the most beneficial part of the internet (IMHO) that people can anonymously learn, study, and discuss things that would not be accepted by their social groups. In many parts of the world this is democracy, peace, human rights.
I'd rather not give this up for validity. I can make up my own mind what to trust, I dont want the goverment or buisness regulating what I can read. Then its the same as print, which I dont find enough.
Under communism, in the Czech Republic you had this sort of censorship and watchfulness. Your neighbor wrote down everytime you went to buy bread and reported it to the police. Everything was tracked. The press was completely censored, TV, and books were such propaganda they were not worth reading. I remember growing up I told my mom if she read any book in Czech she didn't actually read it. What she thought was Huck Finn was nothing like the actual book. She read the title, but they censored it so much, we couldnt even see any similarities except the name. I asked her to read the books she read in Czech, in English. Every time she does, she exclaims, that was nothing like what I read before!
Who wants the internet to become like this? I would much rather deal with the trolls, the opinions I dislike, then to have no disussion at all. I don't want to tracking. People should learn to think for themselves. The country that is doing a lot of "thinking" for its own people is China. I hope we never get to this level.
Here are three interesting articles about Censorship and Press in China.
Perry Keller, “Privilege and Punishment: Press Governance in China.” (2003) 21 Cardozo Arts & Ent.L.J. 87.
Benjamin L. Liebman, “Watchdog or Demagogue? The Media in the Chinese Legal System” (2005) 105 Colum.L.Rev. 1
OpenNet Initiative, Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005: A Country Study,
http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china
The best web hoax I can remember is lonely girl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15
Interesting Quotes from the Chapter
“You should judge my credibility by how my statements correspond with the facts, logic, and the law—not by who I am.”
"But if we are going to have serious online discussions, I think all parties should, with few exceptions, either be willing to verify who they are, or risk having their contributions be questioned and, in some cases, ignored."
"Not everyone has a right to speak on everyone else’s site or be part of everyone else’s
conversation."
"It’s as if the Internet is not only selfcorrecting about matters of fact but also morally self-correcting: A bad turn is corrected by several good ones.”
"But for now, people need to take information on the Internet with the proverbial grain of salt."
I agree with him that copywrite is a very good thing, but tends to get abused to easily. Even though many works should be in the public domain, it is getting harder and harder to get access to them anyway. If I want a hard copy I'm happy to pay for the cost of that, but reading them online should be easy and low cost.
A Czech author Chapek, used to be in the public domain, but the government decided to remove it and put it back in the private domain.
I think the idea of expanding the converstation after reading material is a great idea. Something like what newsvine does for news could be done for books.
Chapter 9 Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust
This chapter basically says that we need to use common sense when reading things online. We shouldnt just assume everything is true. You know why, because normal people make up the internet. Would you trust everything some stranger told you on the street? Would you trust your uncles latest rambling without verifying anything? Probably not. But you would trust a professor or other valid sourse that you trust.
Great. So his suggestions on how to know what to trust or not on the internet is to find out who they are, then we can know weather to trust them or not. But then admits that would destroy the most beneficial part of the internet (IMHO) that people can anonymously learn, study, and discuss things that would not be accepted by their social groups. In many parts of the world this is democracy, peace, human rights.
I'd rather not give this up for validity. I can make up my own mind what to trust, I dont want the goverment or buisness regulating what I can read. Then its the same as print, which I dont find enough.
Under communism, in the Czech Republic you had this sort of censorship and watchfulness. Your neighbor wrote down everytime you went to buy bread and reported it to the police. Everything was tracked. The press was completely censored, TV, and books were such propaganda they were not worth reading. I remember growing up I told my mom if she read any book in Czech she didn't actually read it. What she thought was Huck Finn was nothing like the actual book. She read the title, but they censored it so much, we couldnt even see any similarities except the name. I asked her to read the books she read in Czech, in English. Every time she does, she exclaims, that was nothing like what I read before!
Who wants the internet to become like this? I would much rather deal with the trolls, the opinions I dislike, then to have no disussion at all. I don't want to tracking. People should learn to think for themselves. The country that is doing a lot of "thinking" for its own people is China. I hope we never get to this level.
Here are three interesting articles about Censorship and Press in China.
Perry Keller, “Privilege and Punishment: Press Governance in China.” (2003) 21 Cardozo Arts & Ent.L.J. 87.
Benjamin L. Liebman, “Watchdog or Demagogue? The Media in the Chinese Legal System” (2005) 105 Colum.L.Rev. 1
OpenNet Initiative, Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005: A Country Study,
http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china
The best web hoax I can remember is lonely girl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15
Interesting Quotes from the Chapter
“You should judge my credibility by how my statements correspond with the facts, logic, and the law—not by who I am.”
"But if we are going to have serious online discussions, I think all parties should, with few exceptions, either be willing to verify who they are, or risk having their contributions be questioned and, in some cases, ignored."
"Not everyone has a right to speak on everyone else’s site or be part of everyone else’s
conversation."
"It’s as if the Internet is not only selfcorrecting about matters of fact but also morally self-correcting: A bad turn is corrected by several good ones.”
"But for now, people need to take information on the Internet with the proverbial grain of salt."
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