This document discusses the history of freedom of expression from ancient Athens and Rome to the modern day. It covers key developments like the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also examines how technology has impacted censorship and access to information over time, from the printing press to the internet. Contemporary issues around online reputation and social media are also addressed.
2. Who steals my purse steals
trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has
been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me
my good name
Robs me of that which not
enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Shakespeareâs Othello
(Act 3, scene 3, 155â161)
4. Athens democracy (late 6th or early 5th century BC)
Roman Republic had freedom of speech. early examples
In Islam 7th century AD (Rashidun period by the caliph Umar)
5. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of
the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may,
accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but
shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as
shall be defined by law.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French Revolution, 1789) Article 11
6. Would any politician be against itâŠ
Truth (Mill)
Tolerance (Bollinger)
Democracy (art xix)
8. Everyone has the right
to freedom of opinion
and expression; this
right includes freedom
to hold opinions
without interference
and to seek, receive and
impart information and
ideas through any
media and regardless of
UNDHR, 1948, Article 19 frontiers.
9. - The right to express, or
disseminate,
information and ideas
- The right to seek
information and ideas
- The right to receive
information and ideas
- The right to impart
information and ideas.
John Milton (1608 â 1674)
10. âWhat is freedom of expression? Without the
freedom to offend, it ceases to existâ Salman Rushdie
21. Freedom by agreement (of a
homogeneous group)
Open end-to-end
Packet switching
âliberalâ ideology
22. Governments of the
Industrial World, you
weary giants of flesh
and steel, I come from
Cyberspace, the new
home of Mind. On
behalf of the future, I
ask you of the past to
leave us alone. You are
not welcome among us.
You have no
sovereignty where we
gather.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
â Barlow 1996
24. There is one and only one social responsibility of businessâ
to use its resources and engage in activities designed to
increase its profitsâŠ
Milton Friedman
27. Circus dogs jump
when the trainer
cracks his whip,
but the really well-
trained dog is the
one that turns his
somersault when
there is no whip.
Orwell "As I Please," Tribune (7 July 1944)
28. The problem with censorship? We donât
know what we donât know.
35. At any given moment there is an
orthodoxy, a body of ideas
which it is assumed that all
right-thinking people will accept
without question...
Anyone who challenges the
prevailing orthodoxy finds
himself silenced with surprising
effectiveness.
fear
36. âStarting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold
content from users in a specific countryâ
Twitter
37. (1) we will attempt to let the user
know,
(2) we will clearly mark when the
content has been withheld.
(3) As part of that transparency,
weâve expanded our
partnership with Chilling Effects
when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a
specific country
45. Virtual communities are
social aggregations that
emerge from the Net when
enough people carry on
those public discussions
long enough, with
sufficient human feeling,
to form webs of personal
relationships in
cyberspace.
The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold
58. "more transparency should make for a more
tolerant society in which people eventually accept
that everybody sometimes does bad or
embarrassing thingsâ
Mark Zuckerberg
59. "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get
your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
Paul Chambers
62. âYou have one identity⊠The days of you having a
different image for your work friends or co-workers
and for the other people you know are probably
coming to an end pretty quickly⊠Having two identities
for yourself is an example of a lack of integrityâ
Mark Zuckerberg, 2009
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platser.
2. Har skrivit sin presentation (bio) pÄ svenska.
120 090 identifierades pÄ sin location och de resterande 26 905 pÄ sin
presentation (bio).
146 995 svenska twitterkonton
73. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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