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Speaking of Lessig, two interesting cases emerged this week that help illustrate Lessig’s position that, when thinking about the architecture of cyberspace,  “code is law.”
In Code, Lessig argues that all of the rules, tendencies, affordances, and constraints of/in cyberspace are the result of human decisions, actions, and, ultimately, code. What we can and cannot do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs and protocols that make up the Internet, which can, alternatively or simultaneously, permit and restrict certain human actions:
In real space recognize how …

Lawrence Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace turns 10 this year. In honor of this groundbreaking text, the Cato Institute hosted a “debate” about the book, including essays from Declan McCullagh, Jonathan Zittrain, Adam Thierer, and Lessig himself.
Lead Essay

» What Larry Didn’t Get by Declan McCullagh

Responses

» How to Get What We All Want by Jonathan Zittrain
» Code, Pessimism, and the Illusion of “Perfect Control” by Adam Thierer
» Continuing the work of Code by Lawrence Lessig

BTW, Lessig launched the Code V.2 Wiki to allow others to update the book, which …

Andrew Keen’s new book, The Cult of the Amateur, attacks the rise of the “amateur” amid various Internet and Web 2.0 phenomena, and outlines the various harms — economic, social, cultural and political — these amateurs will inevitably cause. I haven’t had the chance to read the book yet, but its been getting a lot of attention already, much of it negative.
Perhaps the best critique I’ve come across comes from Larry Lessig. I’ve found useful ideas is some of Keen’s other writings, but Prof. Lessig’s reaction gives me pause regarding …