Identity, expression & reputation

Mathias Klang @klang67

Who are you?

Online as free space

Truth in anonymity

Facebook make us unhappy

Freedom of expression

The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French Revolution, 1789) Article 11

Highpoint 1948

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.UNDHR, 1948, Article 19

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist” Salman Rushdie

Offended stephen fry

Technology, Gatekeepers & free information

Media centralization: Publishers

Almost 300 years agoThe state as threat, discussion was on imprimatur

Means of productionIn the hands of a small clique

“Social” control

Exodus 20:14

THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

speakers corner

Enter the net :)

Freedom as side effect

Freedom by agreement (of a homogeneous group)

Open end-to-endPacket switching “liberal” ideology

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

– Barlow 1996

Freedom by design or bi-product

Milton Friedman

There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to

increase its profits…

censorship

Remember him?

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Orwell "As I Please," Tribune (7 July 1944)

Democracy and identity

Law

democracy

Is teleportation legal?

Law

Contextual & programmed social

rules

Architecture

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Downfall (Der Untergang, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany 2003)

2010 Chilling effects

Evil euLaThought control?

The social age of reputation

Socio-economic reputation systems

Reputation & con games

Game theory & Book reviews

Pre-social media rules

Blog

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999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

Normalizing the abnormal

Control

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmor (TIME magazine December 1993)

The other control

Sapir–Whorf hypothesis

Technology makes society

Formalizing friends: Facebook

"more transparency should make for a more tolerant society in which people eventually accept that everybody sometimes does bad or embarrassing things”

Mark Zuckerberg

The Facebook Elbowbreast

iTunes censor fail

Full disclosure

The Hive-mind

If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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