Freedom to Connect
David Isenberg's Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference is taking shape. Take a look.
Complete connection, to everyone, all the time, isn't the optimal state for any network. The most creative networks are the ones that are sparsely connected, allowing interesting and unexpected things to happen. I'm not confident that more connection, for its own sake, is the top priority. Certainly freedom to choose to be connected is crucial.
Freedom to tinker — now, there's a crucial freedom. EFF's recent announcement of Endangered Gizmos caught my eye. Watch for even more gizmos to join the endangered list, as law enforcement and the content industry join forces to turn the internet into a telephone network.
It's just not fair.
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Susan,
In organizing F2C: Freedom to Connect, I was NOT advocating “complete connection, to everyone, all the time”! Just like Freedom of Religion holds within it the freedom to not believe in anything, just like Freedom of Speech is also the freedom to keep your mouth shut, Freedom to Connect is not a duty to connect! Freedom to Connect, it seems to me, is also the Freedom to Disconnect.
David I http://isen.com
David — not casting aspersions, not at all. I'm really looking foward to Freedom to Connect, and I know you're not urging a duty to connect! I was just musing about whether more connections is always better. sorry for the implication. Susan
I'm just waiting for everyone to realize that “Freedom to Connect” is just a restatement of that old chestnut “Freedom of the Press.”
Ernie,
David I
And, of course, as Dan Gillmor will explain, Freedom of the Press is just the ability to own the (increasingly affordable) machinery of Freedom of Speech
It is not just the ability to own a presss, but the ability to make use of a press absent government interference (including government-backed interference by third parties).