Comments for Jonathan Zittrain http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:06:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Comment on Mentioning someone by name on a web site by A taxing case on data protection and journalism http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2007/07/19/mentioning-someone-by-name-on-a-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-63819 A taxing case on data protection and journalism Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:06:00 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2007/07/19/mentioning-someone-by-name-on-a-web-site/#comment-63819 [...] and privacy in the EU, it’s also perhaps a move away from the high water mark that was the Lindqvist case and its broad definition of [...] [...] and privacy in the EU, it’s also perhaps a move away from the high water mark that was the Lindqvist case and its broad definition of [...]

]]> Comment on About by iPhone Jailbreaking http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/about/comment-page-1/#comment-59676 iPhone Jailbreaking Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:09:01 +0000 #comment-59676 [...] sin duda alguna The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It (disponible en PDF) del profesor Jonathan Zittrain el cual reseñáramos brevemente en su oportunidad (Cómo detener el futuro de Internet). De [...] [...] sin duda alguna The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It (disponible en PDF) del profesor Jonathan Zittrain el cual reseñáramos brevemente en su oportunidad (Cómo detener el futuro de Internet). De [...]

]]> Comment on Wikileaks and Points of Control by ab@home » The Great Firewall of California http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/19/wikileaks-and-points-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-47296 ab@home » The Great Firewall of California Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:15:09 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/19/wikileaks-and-points-of-control/#comment-47296 [...] Z’s blog pointed me to an item in the Citizen Media Law Project on all-out lawfare between Bank Julius Baer and the whistleblower site wikileaks. And the injunction enjoining wikileaks.As always, you go after the publisher (here the ISP - Dynadot). But you don’t stop publication. You use the “code is law” principle to make sure that no-one can access the site. You block everything else it has or might publish, and (since it is a wiki) anything that others may wish to contribute as an exercise of their First Amendment rights. Prior Restraint. And a complete end run around Near v. Minnesota.To quote Judge White in the Federal District Court (my bold): 1. Dynadot shall immediately lock the wikileaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar, and shall immediately disable the wikileaks.org domain name and account to prevent access to and any changes from being made to the domain name and account information, until further order of this Court.2. Dynadot shall immediately disable the wikileaks.org domain name and account such that the optional privacy who-is service for the domain name and account remains turned off, until further order of this Court.[..]4. Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court. [...] [...] Z’s blog pointed me to an item in the Citizen Media Law Project on all-out lawfare between Bank Julius Baer and the whistleblower site wikileaks. And the injunction enjoining wikileaks.As always, you go after the publisher (here the ISP – Dynadot). But you don’t stop publication. You use the “code is law” principle to make sure that no-one can access the site. You block everything else it has or might publish, and (since it is a wiki) anything that others may wish to contribute as an exercise of their First Amendment rights. Prior Restraint. And a complete end run around Near v. Minnesota.To quote Judge White in the Federal District Court (my bold): 1. Dynadot shall immediately lock the wikileaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar, and shall immediately disable the wikileaks.org domain name and account to prevent access to and any changes from being made to the domain name and account information, until further order of this Court.2. Dynadot shall immediately disable the wikileaks.org domain name and account such that the optional privacy who-is service for the domain name and account remains turned off, until further order of this Court.[..]4. Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court. [...]

]]> Comment on The Future of the Internet by Internet Governance Forum 2008 @ Cagliari http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2007/02/12/the-future-of-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-45090 Internet Governance Forum 2008 @ Cagliari Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:40:01 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/?p=26#comment-45090 [...] le scelte che verranno fatte in questi campi potrebbero cambiare il nostro modo di comunicare, la Rete come la conosciamo oggi e più in generale la nostra sfera [...] [...] le scelte che verranno fatte in questi campi potrebbero cambiare il nostro modo di comunicare, la Rete come la conosciamo oggi e più in generale la nostra sfera [...]

]]> Comment on Lessig for Congress?/! by DouglasWard.net » Blog Archive » Lessig For Congress? http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/15/lessig-for-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-38912 DouglasWard.net » Blog Archive » Lessig For Congress? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:23:41 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/15/lessig-for-congress/#comment-38912 [...] like that just might happen. Lawrence Lessig has apparently bought ‘change-congress.com.’ A ‘Draft Lessig’ group is forming on Facebook, featuring some of Lessig’s old co-workers at Harvard and Jimmy Wales, among others. No word from [...] [...] like that just might happen. Lawrence Lessig has apparently bought ‘change-congress.com.’ A ‘Draft Lessig’ group is forming on Facebook, featuring some of Lessig’s old co-workers at Harvard and Jimmy Wales, among others. No word from [...]

]]> Comment on Facebook and the dangers of Web 2.0 by +None » Archivos » ¿Dónde para este colectivo? http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/01/23/facebook-the-dangers-of-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-31263 +None » Archivos » ¿Dónde para este colectivo? Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:09:53 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/01/23/facebook-the-dangers-of-web-20/#comment-31263 [...] esta ubicuidad? Bueno, seamos neutrales, pero sólo hasta dónde conviene. Facebook, un ejemplo que suele citar Zittrain, permite generar aplicaciones para la nube aunque a un costo, al menos, sospechoso. Básicamente, [...] [...] esta ubicuidad? Bueno, seamos neutrales, pero sólo hasta dónde conviene. Facebook, un ejemplo que suele citar Zittrain, permite generar aplicaciones para la nube aunque a un costo, al menos, sospechoso. Básicamente, [...]

]]> Comment on New blog location — www.futureoftheinternet.net by David Hughes http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/06/12/new-blog-location-wwwfutureoftheinternetnet/comment-page-1/#comment-30926 David Hughes Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:16:12 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/06/12/new-blog-location-wwwfutureoftheinternetnet/#comment-30926 Jonathan, I worked for a company that solved the Malicious Client Problem by using Set Theory (350pg patent). Only a completely secure platform can achieve your goals. The goal of this company is to turn 'hits' into cash with secure grid computing. Here, anyone can build micro-programs that interact intellegently, royalties guaranteed, reverse engineering impossible. Your vision is becoming a reality. Check out some of 3i.unitec.ac.nz (3i is Interoperable Information Infrastructure - Internet Governance of the future) david.hughes@3itec.net David Hughes Jonathan,

I worked for a company that solved the Malicious Client Problem by using Set Theory (350pg patent). Only a completely secure platform can achieve your goals. The goal of this company is to turn ‘hits’ into cash with secure grid computing. Here, anyone can build micro-programs that interact intellegently, royalties guaranteed, reverse engineering impossible.

Your vision is becoming a reality.

Check out some of

3i.unitec.ac.nz

(3i is Interoperable Information Infrastructure – Internet Governance of the future)

david.hughes@3itec.net

David Hughes

]]> Comment on Dichotomies and markets by Jeff Lawson http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/03/24/dichotomies-and-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-23871 Jeff Lawson Fri, 23 May 2008 08:26:01 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/03/24/dichotomies-and-markets/#comment-23871 Well done, Jonathan! Because you're an Oxford professor, lick spittles and snobs at the BBC, et.al. start fawning and giving you way too much publicity. Just keep on using those pseudo-intellectual sound bites, like 'generative technologies', that make people think you know more than they do: scribblers just love that sort of nonsense. The idea that HTTP is somehow going to evaporate is hilarious. As long as anyone can throw up a web site and anyone else can connect to it, we'll be fine. Now, if someone would only develop a nonsense filter so that the superstition merchants could be cut off from the rest of us... Actually, that would be a good project for you! Put your money where your mouth is and develop something that's 'generative'. I wonder if you are sufficiently capable :-) Go HTTP! P.S. Oh, no it's happened: the end of HTTP. I hit Submit to leave a reply and I got ... Network Error (tcp_error) A communication error occurred: "" The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time. For assistance, contact your network support team. The irony! I can't take it any more. We're all doomed! Well done, Jonathan! Because you’re an Oxford professor, lick spittles and snobs at the BBC, et.al. start fawning and giving you way too much publicity. Just keep on using those pseudo-intellectual sound bites, like ‘generative technologies’, that make people think you know more than they do: scribblers just love that sort of nonsense.

The idea that HTTP is somehow going to evaporate is hilarious. As long as anyone can throw up a web site and anyone else can connect to it, we’ll be fine.

Now, if someone would only develop a nonsense filter so that the superstition merchants could be cut off from the rest of us… Actually, that would be a good project for you! Put your money where your mouth is and develop something that’s ‘generative’. I wonder if you are sufficiently capable :-)

Go HTTP!

P.S. Oh, no it’s happened: the end of HTTP. I hit Submit to leave a reply and I got …

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: “”
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

The irony! I can’t take it any more. We’re all doomed!

]]> Comment on Dichotomies and markets by David Brin http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/03/24/dichotomies-and-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-22267 David Brin Fri, 16 May 2008 00:32:18 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/03/24/dichotomies-and-markets/#comment-22267 David Brin here, author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (The latest Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference is featuring a tenth anniversary commemoration of that book, next week.) I just wanted to congratulate you on THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET. I especially liked the point you made on Charlie Rose, about how sites like Second Life and MySpace seem almost-deliberately designed in order to lobotomize conversation, reducing "discourse" to the level of (at best) a single sentence or ROTFL. I'm glad someone out there has noticed! Because right now, the consensus among Net cogniscenti seems to be that there's nothing at all wrong with the 40 year old, teletype-based scrolling "chat" mode. The only parallel I can think of is the near universal rejection of both GUI and hypercard... till they became suddenly "obvious." Larry Brilliant invited me to give a Google Tech Talk: http://tinyurl.com/yy7yxm about all this last year. It may entertain you. If so, you can reach me via http://www.davidbrin.com Keep up the great work. With cordial regards, David Brin http://www.davidbrin.com David Brin here, author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (The latest Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference is featuring a tenth anniversary commemoration of that book, next week.)

I just wanted to congratulate you on THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET. I especially liked the point you made on Charlie Rose, about how sites like Second Life and MySpace seem almost-deliberately designed in order to lobotomize conversation, reducing “discourse” to the level of (at best) a single sentence or ROTFL.

I’m glad someone out there has noticed! Because right now, the consensus among Net cogniscenti seems to be that there’s nothing at all wrong with the 40 year old, teletype-based scrolling “chat” mode. The only parallel I can think of is the near universal rejection of both GUI and hypercard… till they became suddenly “obvious.”

Larry Brilliant invited me to give a Google Tech Talk: http://tinyurl.com/yy7yxm about all this last year. It may entertain you. If so, you can reach me via http://www.davidbrin.com

Keep up the great work.

With cordial regards,

David Brin
http://www.davidbrin.com

]]> Comment on Dichotomies and markets by Patrick http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/03/24/dichotomies-and-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-21439 Patrick Thu, 08 May 2008 20:44:36 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/03/24/dichotomies-and-markets/#comment-21439 Woe to s/he who speaks of "market" forces. The Internet itself is very much the exception to the macro trend in America, at least, towards consolidation, control, and exclusionary practices. There should be great concern- there is a widespread push to saturate the consumer market with sterile devices regardless of "market" forces. Inertia is as much a force in the financial sense as the physical. Once powerful vested interests depend on a technology, you can be assured change will be stifled. Woe to s/he who speaks of “market” forces. The Internet itself is very much the exception to the macro trend in America, at least, towards consolidation, control, and exclusionary practices.
There should be great concern- there is a widespread push to saturate the consumer market with sterile devices regardless of “market” forces.
Inertia is as much a force in the financial sense as the physical. Once powerful vested interests depend on a technology, you can be assured change will be stifled.

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