Regulatory Humility : yet another brilliant Larry Lessig Talk
Posted: March 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments »Simply Brilliant!
Larry Lessig delivered a brilliant talk (Internet is Freedom) at the Italian parliament on March 11, 2010, acknowledging the “either / or mistake” that prevails and leads to “extremism rules”, stressing the “cost of mistrust” towards learning “regulatory humility”. This is fundamental for the sake of our children and the information society we want them to inherit.
Unfortunately, no tangible sign of such humility anywhere around the world (be it © reform, anti counterfeiting agreements, three strike approaches, HADOPI, LOPSI 2, Digital Britain bill, etc.).
In my research domain on DRM technologies, I’ve been struggling with this for several years now with limited success arguing there is a need for “managing exceptions” in DRM environments as a middle ground between the © freaks and the abolitionists (holding yet another Day Against DRM on May 4th, 2010 among other initiatives).
Society has stopped thinking critically and creatively. I suggest March 11th should be marked as the “Day of Regulatory Humility”, engaging people around the world to take a step back and to humbly and critically look at the issues their respective parliaments are working on. March 11th, 2010 : The First Day of Regulatory Humility… 360 days left to organize the 2011 edition. Care to join ?
Don’t take my word for it, and do spare the 37 ‘ listening to the talk :
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BRAVO Larry and thanks for all the inspiring work you do.
Source : blip.tv
Follow up article in La Stampa (translated in The Huffington Post) : “20th century media government burdening 21st century media is a pattern followed by too much of the world already“
Follow up articles on the talk in La Stampa : http://bit.ly/cAWlPB (English version in the Washington Post : http://bit.ly/9wPWOB )
“… the conflict of a 20th century media government burdening 21st century media is a pattern followed by too much of the world already …”
[...] I’m sorry to say but we’re all going south with this ! Is this the information society we want our kids to inherit ? Definitely not, and we need to act before it’s too late. Larry Lessig in a recent talk at the Italian parliament has brilliantly pictured the situation arguing about the evil of the Extremes, challenging each and everyone of us to some humility when it comes to regulations (regulatory humility). [...]