We're getting wrapped around the wrong issues with SOPA. The problem isn't in how it's enforced. It's the fact that the basic concept is a violation of due process.
That's my view, Mary, and the fact that SOPA is kind of on hold at the moment is proof that a lot of people are concerned about it. I do think that most of the criticism has been focused too narrowly, though. We have to insure that trying to enforce laws at Internet speed doesn't create accelerated injustice.
I don't understand why supporters feel that they can't wait until a suspect is proven guilty in court to shut down a website. Like you say: due process.
It just seems like such an "off with your head" type of additude.
I like your approach, Tom, because it simplifies the issues. Let's say for the sake of argument piracy is a terrible problem and SOPA's approach would be effective. We still shouldn't support it because it scraps due process. I can only agree.
Great video, Tom, and very succinct in pointing out the flaw at the heart of SOPA. If we can't live with the enforcement, it's time to go back to the basic premise and start over.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
50 billion household devices will be on the Internet by 2020, according to Cisco. And we're hearing foreign governments are hacking our infrastructure. Surely our refrigerators are next!
YouTube's move to a partial pay-for-view model could help relieve a dearth of good new content but it could also complicate debates in many parts of the world over payment by content providers for delivery of their material to customers.
That's what Larry Page said on Google's earnings call, referring to the conjunction of mobile and the cloud. Well, let's chart it then! We need to be thinking about an Internet where 90% of our traffic goes to 70 destinations within 40 miles of us.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
EU operators are considering joining up to create a pan-European network to reduce competitive overbuild and cost. This might lower costs and focus operators on higher-level, more interesting services.
The new UltraViolet online DRM model has people upset, but the question we should ask ourselves is whether we want a flexible model to harmonize content owner and content consumer rights, or a one-takes-all model that probably results in less online content.
Some say that exposure to violence in gaming, online video, etc., is creating a violent culture. Tom says it's not that straightforward. Rather than regulate violence, we should understand it better.
Reporting from "overnight duty" (hmm…) at Internet Evolution, Kim Davis gives an update on the day Wikipedia, Reddit, and BoingBoing went dark to protest SOPA.
TV got the lion's share of the political ad bonanza this election. Even though we may hate these advertisements, this validates the fact that television ads trump online ads.
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