I am your Witness is an effort to provide people with privilege (white males like me), an opportunity to interface and intervene with people victimized by systemic police misconduct. Unlike the large incidences that lead to headlines and hearings, the small instances of racial profiling and harassment are difficult to [...]
The New School university requires [tries to require] Wi-Fi users to download Safe Connect to control wireless Internet access. Students and faculty are concerned that this software can gather users’ private information and transmit it freely as its private makers (Impulse Point) see fit. We are supposed to comply on [...]
The following is an excerpt from Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. His writing is thoughtful and prescient to the point of becoming obvious just a few short years after its publication. The text below is from the start of Chapter 9, Justice [...]