1. Regulation by proxy Limiting the Open Society

2. Is anyone listening… Why free speech?

3. Truth (Mill)Tolerance (Bollinger)Democracy (art xix) Would any politician be against it…

4. Highpoint 1948

5. History…

6. Almost 300 years ago The state as threat, discussion was on imprimatur

7. Revolution & rights

8. Media centralization

9. In the hands of a small clique Means of production

10. speakers corner

11. Enter the net :)

12. Freedom as side effect

13. Freedom by agreement (of a homogeneous group) Open end-to-end Packet switching “liberal” ideology

14. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace Governments of the Industrial World, you wearygiants 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 leaveusalone. You are not welcomeamongus. You have no sovereigntywherewegather. Barlowe, 1996

15. Freedom as bi-product

16. There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… Milton Friedman

17. censorship

19. 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.

20. Lone voices in the crowd/cloud

21. Inadvertent censorship affordances

22. german engineer problem

23. Chilling effects

24. Evil euLa Thought control?

25. When states wash their hands… Regulation by proxy

26. What can be done?

27. What its there for! Remember…

28. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

29. What I want… Freedom of speech on the platforms of others Return of the state End of regulation by proxy

30. It’s the hypocrisy that I find insulting or remove free speech as a human right…

31. Thank you.

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