internet
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Scripta Volant Quoque
The Romans said ― or, more likely, wrote ― that while words fly away, writing remains. Russians say that what is written with the quill cannot be hacked away with an axe. The idea of the permanence of the written word is very widespread. It is part of the law, too, whether in the rules Continue reading
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The Future is Even Creepier
There is an interesting story in today’s New York Times that brings together a couple of my recent topics, the tracking of internet users by the websites they visit and the use of the data thus generated in advertising, about which I wrote here, and the use of target-specific outreach and advertising by President Obama’s Continue reading
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Oui… Non… Peut-Être?
La question de l’application de règles de la Loi électorale québécoise concernant les dépenses électorales des citoyens à des activités sur internet, que j’ai déjà abordée ici et ici, refait encore surface. Selon un article de Radio-Canada, le Directeur général des élections a d’abord conclu que liberaux.net, un site farouchement opposé au Parti libéral du Québec, Continue reading
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Google, Speaker and Censor
Some recent stories highlight Google’s ambiguous role as provider and manager of content, which, from a free-speech perspective, puts at it at once in the shoes of both a speaker potentially subject to censorship and an agent of the censors. The first of these is an interesting exchange between Eugene Volokh, of UCLA and the Continue reading
Double Aspect 