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Looking for Jefferson's Moose: The State of Cyberspace

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Partner:: Cato Institute
Location:: Cato Institute
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 02.04.09
Speakers:: Clive Crook,; Jim Harper,; David Post,; Jeffrey Rosen
Tags:: thomas jefferson; web 2.0; internet freedom; open source; singularity; libertarian; Regulation

Summary: In 1787, Thomas Jefferson put a stuffed American moose in the lobby of his Paris residence. As the U.S. minister to France, Jefferson displayed the moose to powerfully symbolize the enormous possibilities of America.

The new world of the Internet has equally vast possibilities and, like North America in Jefferson's day, its landscape remains largely unexplored.

In his new book, In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace, David Post draws remarkable and entertaining parallels between the Internet and the natural and intellectual landscape that Thomas Jefferson explored, documented, and shaped.

Creatively drawing on Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, Post describes how the Internet functions technically and applies Jefferson's views on natural history, law, and governance to the unfolding complexities of cyberspace.

Jefferson's Moose is a book for both fans of Thomas Jefferson and for fans of the Internet, each of whom should know more about the other topic.

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Clive Crook

Clive Crook is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a columnist and editorial-board member at Bloomberg View. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Washington columnist and associate editor of the Financial Times. Before moving to live and work in the US, he worked for more than 20 years at The Economist, as economics correspondent, Washington correspondent, economics editor, and deputy editor. In that last role he guided the magazine’s editorial line across its interests in business, politics and international relations.

Jim Harper

As director of information policy studies, Jim Harper focuses on the difficult problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. Harper is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. His work has been cited by USA Today, the Associated Press, and Reuters. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CBS, and MSNBC, and other media. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Administrative Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Recently, Harper wrote the book Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood. Harper is the editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think tank devoted exclusively to privacy, and he maintains online federal spending resource WashingtonWatch.com. He holds a J.D. from UC Hastings College of Law.

David Post

David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. Professor Post is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a Fellow at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, and a contributor to the influential Volokh Conspiracy blog. [More detail on Professor Post's research and writings can be found here.] Prior to joining the Temple Law School faculty in 1997, Professor Post clerked with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, and he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual property law and high technology commercial transactions. He then clerked again for Justice Ginsburg during her first term on the Supreme Court before joining the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center (1994â€“1997).

Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. A widely read legal commentator, his most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, a companion book to the PBS series on the Supreme Court.

He is also the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze.

A graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, and Yale Law School, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and his essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic, as well as on National Public Radio.

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01.: Cato Institute Introduction

01 min 50 sec

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02.: What Would the Internet Look Like through Jefferson's Eyes?

04 min 07 sec

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03.: Recreating Jefferson

02 min 04 sec

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04.: The Story of Jefferson's Moose

05 min 50 sec

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05.: Growth and Scale on the Internet

02 min 10 sec

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06.: Jefferson, the Internet, and the Economic Crisis

02 min 14 sec

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07.: Clive Crook: The Internet as Unexplored Territory

02 min 46 sec

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08.: Regulating the Internet and Telecommunications

05 min 25 sec

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09.: Jeffrey Rosen: Free Speech Regulation on the Net

03 min 11 sec

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10.: The Woman with the Most Control of Speech on the Internet

04 min 12 sec

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11.: What Does this Mean for Governance?

06 min 53 sec

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12.: Internet Running Out of Numbers

03 min 01 sec

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13.: Post Rebuttal

06 min 01 sec

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14.: Q & A

03 min 40 sec

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15.: Q1: Private Sector Gatekeepers

06 min 53 sec

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16.: Q2: Unexplored Territory and Slavery

03 min 11 sec

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17.: Q3: Regulating Internet by Language not Region

03 min 44 sec

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18.: Q4: Internet Defamation

06 min 41 sec

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19.: Q5: ISP Level Blocking

02 min 42 sec

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20.: Q6: Internet as a 'Right'

04 min 17 sec

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Google’s Gatekeeper: The Most Powerful Woman on the Net

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Jeffrey Rosen reflects on his meeting with "Google's gatekeeper," deputy general counsel Nicole Wong. He claims she has more control over free speech than practically anyone in the world.
The Internet is Running Out of IP Addresses

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Law professor David Post explains that the original 4 billion unique Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are running out, and that the Internet will soon face a crisis unless a new version of the fundamental IP is enacted.

"It will change the Net...as we know it in many profound ways," he says of the new IP.
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IP address: Number that uniquely identifies each computer on the Internet. A computer's IP address may be permanently assigned or supplied each time that it connects to the Internet by an Internet service provider. In order to accommodate the extraordinary growth in the number of devices connected to the Internet, a 32-bit protocol standard, known as IPv4, began to be replaced by a 128-bit protocol, IPv6, in 2000. See also TCP/IP; domain name; URL.; IP address on britannica.com