Yale ISP’s 9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration.

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It’s been a couple weeks…but the Friday Roundup is back. Ready?

• Wired: The right-wing hater machine gunning for Obama Larry Lessig? [Also at AT] Why won’t they just let Jesus be fabulous?
  
• LAist: Headline I’ve been waiting my whole life to read - Justine Bateman, ‘Drunk College Students’ Team Up to Save the Internet.
• So, this exists: Committee to Protect Bloggers.
• Ars Technica: Canada is not immune!
• Edge (Boston): Landmark Canadian gay bookstore going up for sale.
• BusinessWeek: Does she look like a music pirate? [via]
• Save The Internet: “Piracy” = smoke screen.

And additionally, out of my own excitement, Michael Zimmer is joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, where I am currently a graduate student. He had some pretty rad things to say about it…

Happy Weekending!

Save The Internet: We want net neutrality!

Re-cap of last Thursday’s event at Stanford. Lawrence Lessig’s presentation is included in the above video!

If you follow the topics this blog covers even loosely, then you already know that the FCC’s do-over hearing on net neutrality (after the Harvard debacle) will be held at Stanford University tomorrow.

Oh, the antici…pation.

Is Europe the new internet policy epicenter? Some think so.

With stories like this one piling up daily, we’re inclined to agree. As Susan Crawford notes, Europe seems to actively consider a lot of the topics we take for granted.

“Social Media as a policy tool” podcast. [via]

Opinion article on a proposed bill in the Arizona state legislature that would make publishers and producers financially responsible if their more untoward releases could be “proven” to have influenced a crime.

There is just so much wrong with that concept, and the article does a good job explaining as much. However, the article draws a hard-line I am almost equally uncomfortable with:

But, ultimately, it is the perpetrator of violence who must be punished for what he did. Nichols’ bill mitigates that responsibility. Suddenly, the criminal is the victim: The music made him do it; the movie made him do it. Others are responsible. Not him.

Such a development is sick. A rapist is a rapist, not the victim of a rap video.

In the context of the proposed legislation, I totally agree. But that statement does not encourage the kind of discussion we ought to be having concerning personal vs. corporate responsibility today. Where does one leave off and the other begin?

ALA OIF on the decision to reverse POPLINE’s ban on the word “abortion.”

Friday! Let’s see what we’ve got…

• RI v. TP:  Ray Beckerman at Fordham IP Conference.
• Ars Technica: Blog commentary is no substitute for academic peer review. Surprise!
• Techcrunch: Craigslist - now with blog. As if the “Missed Connections” and “Casual Encounters” didn’t keep you busy enough… [via]
• Slashdot: Net neutrality and Canada, eh.
• Crooks and Liars: “Abortion” banned from world’s largest database on reproductive health?
• WP: Verizon chief says, “Net neutrality is bad, but cell phone watches are obviously going to be awesome.” This post will self-destruct in 5…4…
• WVWV: Who’s your favorite female blogger? [via] Give ‘em props, because The Daily Show sure isn’t.
• School Library Journal: ALA speaks out against NSLs.

And, since we’ve been a little obsessed with music this week (go see Shine a Light!), here is my Muxtape. Go forth, listen, be merry…and Muxtape. Leave us your mixes in the comments!

Happy weekending!

Goddamn April 1st. The Internet is a minefield of BS today.

We can only hope that this new intellectual property legislation is a joke, too.

Sadly, I don’t think it is. A whole “Department of Intellectual Property Security?” Man, oh, man. This is gonna get ugly.