Jonathan Zittrain On the Future of the Internet 216
uctpjac writes "Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford and renowned cyberlaw scholar, gave a lecture explaining that the Internet has to be taken out of the hands of the anarchists, the libertarians, and the State, and handed back to self-policing communities of experts. If we don't do this, he believes the Internet will suffer 'self-closure' — the open system will seal itself off when the inability to put its own house in order leads to a take-over by government and business. The article summarizes Zittrain's points and notes, "Forces of organized interests that do not play by the rules, like malware peddlers, identity thieves and spammers are allowing another army of interests — corporate protectionists, often — to demand centralized, authoritarian solutions. This is the future of the Net unless we stop it.'"
I didn't get it. (Score:3, Informative)
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Anarchism (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Out of their hands and back again apparently (Score:5, Informative)
Anarchism is probably the most misrepresented of all political creeds, even more than fascism or communism. While I am certainly no expert (nor anarchist) you're putting forward statements that are clearly untrue, even at a glance.
That's okay (Score:2, Informative)
Re:okaay (Score:5, Informative)
Communism is an economic system where the workers own the means of production; the practical implementations usually had the state owning everything. It has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
I use the Web mainly for reading text and looking at pictures. The current Web is absolutely superior in this compared to any imaginable virtual world.
The cyberspace - a simulation of real 3D world - is a fun thing for playing around, but when you need to get information, it is pathetically inefficient. Besides, it takes obscene amounts of resources to host a virtual world compared to simply hosting a website, so not surprisingly every virtual world in existence is tightly controlled by agenda-ridden groups. Add the fact that there is only a handful of them, and getting started in a new virtual world requires an absurd amount of effort - installing the client, at the absolute minimum - compared to simply going to a new website with the good old browser, and it is quite clear that the Internet's future lies in the lair of the spider queen.
Re:Libertarians are NOT "anarchists"! (Score:4, Informative)
If you read TFA, you might see the author's final comments on communitarianism - that it is a model which is built more on micro-institutions than hippy communes. This isn't a communist model, but one which asks for community expertise to be allowed to police net freedom rather than a totalising imposition of "solutions" from above.
Re:And Who Might The Experts Be? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Band of experts == communism (Score:4, Informative)
name one eh? well these are only facilities doing STEM CELL Research mind you, but I removed all the US ones.
North America
U Toronto; Robarts Research Inst.; McMaster U, Ontario; Ottawa Health Research Institute
South America
U São Paulo
Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Laranjeiras
U Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
Hammersmith Hospital, London; Imperial College London; King's College London
Medical Research Council (MRC); Regenerative Medicine Institute, Galway
Roslin Institute, Edinburgh; U Birmingham
U Cambridge; U College London
U Durham; U Edinburgh
U Glasgow; U Liverpool
U Manchester; U Newcastle
U Oxford; U Sheffield; U York
Continental Europe
Genopole, Evry, France; INSERM, Reims, France
IRB, Montpellier, France; U Valencia, Spain
Geneva U Hospitals, Switzerland; San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy
U Dusseldorf, Germany; U Cologne, Germany
Max-Planck Institute, Germany; Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands; Catholic U Leuven, Belgium
Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research; Odense U Hospital, Denmark
U Goteborg, Sweden; U Lund, Sweden
Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Mendel U, Czech Republic
Oulu U, Finland; U Tampere, Finland
U Helsinki, Finland
Mideast
Istanbul Memorial Hospital, Turkey; Hadassah Medical Center, Israel
The Technion, Israel; Jeddah BioCity, Saudi Arabia
Royan Institute, Iran
Asia-Pacific
U Beijing, China; Peking Union Medical College
Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Ctr, Beijing; Shanghai Second Medical University
Chinese National Human Genome Center Shanghai; Shanghai Huashan Institute
Xiangya Reproduction & Genetics Hospital, China; Sun Yat-sen U, China
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan; Biomedical Engineering Center, Taiwan
Seoul National U, Korea; Miz-Medi Medical Research Center, Korea
Maria Biotechnology Institute, Korea; Stem Cell Research Centre, Korea
RIKEN Institute, Japan; Kyoto U, Japan
Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute, Japan; Keio U, Japan
Osaka U Medical School, Japan; Genome Institute of Singapore
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
U Kebangsaan, Malaysia; Mahidol U, Thailand
NCBS Bangalore, India; National Centre for Cell Science, India
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
Australia
Australian Stem Cell Centre; Howard Florey Institute
Monash U Stem Cell Labs; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
NSW Stem Cell Network; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
U Adelaide; U New South Wales
U Queensland; Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Re:No No No (Score:3, Informative)
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The guy's name is "Johnny Zit-train." Sounds like a character out of a Clearasil commercial.