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IP: The Constitution & The Internet
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:45:08 -0400
ASPEN, Colorado (Wired) - "Why should public values not have a role?," asks Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig about the building of the Internet. A keynote speaker at the "Aspen Summit 98," sponsored by Newt Gingrich's Progress and Freedom Foundation, Lessig acknowledged that "it would be a disaster for [members of] the government to become code writers....But the Constitution should have some effect on [the architecture of the Internet]." Lessig says the Internet rises above purely private enterprise to "world- building." He wants values to be protected and suggests not to do so will help erode confidence in government. Dissenting is John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Larry wants to make cyberspace safe for law. I want to keep law out of cyberspace."
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