Tag Archives: internet freedom

New from me: Five tech reads for the season

Posted on January 3, 2023 by bhaggart

Over at CIGI, I’ve shared five books that I’ve found particularly useful for understanding the digital economy and tech policy. The first three books explore the basic fundamentals: The thing about technology, of course, is that it is always a … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Occupation 4: Thinking about Freedom

Posted on February 8, 2022 by bhaggart

Working out what to think about … all this … in real time. Gary Mason has a good column in the Globe and Mail today arguing that the alt-right has co-opted the language of freedom in a way that undermines … Continue reading →

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What copyright scholars can learn from the Harper’s magazine “free speech” debacle

Posted on July 15, 2020 by bhaggart

Nicholas Grossman has an excellent oped (h/t Mike Masnick) on that much (and justly) maligned Harper’s letter about cancel culture, free speech and stuff. Grossman’s key point: free speech defenders … miscast … their argument as a high-level defense of … Continue reading →

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The Mexican Stop ACTA movement and the politicization of Mexican copyright (or, how I spent my winter vacation)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by bhaggart

I’m at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in Victoria, British Columbia, all this week, so now is as good a time as any to actually highlight some of the things I’ve been working on for the … Continue reading →

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