“Code is law” wrote Lawrence Lessig back in 1999. This has evolved and been demonstrated again and again since then. Code defines an ever increasing part of our personal and social lives. How businesses and friends interact with us, but also how authorities and intelligence services see us. It is already the case for many but soon the lives and rights as citizens of all of us will be defined by code. Code is political. Politics depend on code. If we want a world that is open and diverse we must code for it. How do we achieve better code, better politics and a better world together?

1. CODE //
POLITICS
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2. 1. CODE = POLITICS
2. The Web We Have
3. POLITICS by CODE
3. POLITICS by CODE
3. POLITICS by CODE
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3. CODE =
POLITICS
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4. Lessig
01.01.2000
01.01.2000
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5. CODE regulates
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6. CODE
implements
values
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7. CODE protects
privacy, or promotes
monitoring
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8. People choose
what CODE
does
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9. Be careful what
you CODE for
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10. Externalities
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14. True social and
environmental
costs
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15. The Web We
Have
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16. @karmel80

17. Ad based
economy
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18. Attention based
economy
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19. 3. POLITICS
determined by
CODE
CODE
CODE
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22. MOBOCRATIC
ALGORITHMS
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24. Polarisation
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25. Traditional
media?
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26. Flickr, Gage Skidmore

27. Facts?
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28. Who gives a
F*ck?
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30. The Future
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32. Egypt,
2011
2011
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34. If you want to liberate
society all you need
is the internet.

35. Egypt,
2013
2013
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38. 2016
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39. If we want to liberate
the society, we first
need to liberate the
internet
Wael Ghonim

40. Images
• http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Inside_the_Batad_rice_terraces.jpg
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Internet_of_Things.jpg
• https://personaldemocracy.com/media/web-we-lost-web-we-want
• http://dontbubble.us (fig 17)
• http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/a/ab/Simpsons_angry_mob.png/reviion/latest?cb=20070619165229
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbvNLmLojzo
• Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Fountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona. -
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• http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/log/multimedia/Den%20korte%20avis%203.png
• http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hamdy-photo.png
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Tahrir_Square_-_February_9,_2011.png
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Rabaa_al-Adawiya.png
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Dead_bodies_in_RABIA_Massacre_(3).jpg