Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan L. Zittrain is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder and director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford and visiting professor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth24 December 1969
CountryUnited States of America
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.
There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.
Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.
Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.
You can't give away your vote for something of value, but because there is no material gain, it's not ... clearly in violation of federal law.