A recent entry on Lawrence Lessig's blog is entitled simply, "Wow." That's certainly enough to get my attention. The subject of the post is a video to which he links, that provides information about a difficult subject to fully understand, net neutrality: Lawrence Lessig.
There are many sources of information about this subject on the Web, of course, so by all means, don't limit yourself to this one, but it does have a powerful impact at least partly because of the medium. It reminds me of another video that's been making the rounds that explains in brief (about 5 minutes) the awe and power of xml and Web 2.0. Both of these videos highlight the power of the mix culture that the Internet enables. It's all very circular, very connected, recursive. Anyway, have a look.
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Access seems to the key on several legal fronts this year, both on the internet (net neutrality, in copyright (orphan works, google library project, DRM technologies) and also in affirmative action in education. I just returned from a law and policy conference at Stetson University where there were several excellent speakers on the issue of access to education, both at the K-12 and postsecondary level.
Two yet to be decided Supreme Court cases this year address the ability of elementary and secondary schools to continue to redress the racial imbalance in housing by using voluntary integration in the school system.
See the Seattle case oral argument transcript.
If these cases are decided against the schools as some think they may be, the social stratification of society will head back to the days when Brown v. Board of Education was decided. In this atmosphere, what is at stake highlights all the more the need to preserve net neutrality. Access is key to education, and the internet may be all that is left for some parts of the world, including poverty stricken areas of the U.S.
Posted by peg odonnell | February 24, 2007 11:50 AM
Posted on February 24, 2007 11:50