On the blogging conference…

scheduled for Aug. 27 in Charlottesville (contact Sorensen or see particulars elsewhere), please, as we contemplate this one, let us keep foremost in our minds that part of our Constition that begins with the words “Congress shall make no law…” Sure, there are other issues–technology, responsibility, fairness, ethics, privacy, copyright, access, political, regulatory, etc.–and I expect that we will mull over these things, but they are but pale, distant, vacuous pretenders to anything resembling parity with Free Speech.


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  1. Waldo Jaquith Avatar
    Waldo Jaquith

    We’ve got a pretty good exercise worked out — it’ll occupy a couple of hours, believe it or not — in which we’re going to explore all sides of the matter of regulation, hopefully getting some people to think about it in ways that are opposite that which they might normally. So, Barnie, we’ll put you in the pro-regulation group. ๐Ÿ™‚

    At the end of the day, we’ll come together, figure out if we got anything from our temporarily-adopted perspectives, and see what sort of regulation (self- or externally-imposed) that we can agree on. Maybe we’ll all end up right where we started, or maybe we’ll learn a bit in the process.

    It’s all a big experiment. ๐Ÿ™‚

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