Digital Presence, Expression & Reputation

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Digital Presence, expression & reputationMathias Klang @klang67

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him,And makes me poor indeed.

Shakespeare’s Othello (Act 3, scene 3, 155–161)

Speech, reputation, censorship: human concerns as old as society Is anyone listening…

early examplesAthens democracy (late 6th or early 5th century BC)Roman Republic had freedom of speech.In Islam 7th century AD (Rashidun period by the caliph Umar)

The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French Revolution, 1789) Article 11

Truth (Mill)Tolerance (Bollinger)

Democracy (art xix)

Would any politician be against it…

Highpoint 1948

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.UNDHR, 1948, Article 19

- The right to express, or disseminate, information and ideas- The right to seek information and ideas- The right to receive information and ideas- The right to impart information and ideas.

John Milton (1608 – 1674)

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist” Salman Rushdie

Technology, Gatekeepers & free information

Media centralization: Publishers

Almost 300 years agoThe state as threat, discussion was on imprimatur

Means of productionIn the hands of a small clique

“Social” control

Exodus 20:14

THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

speakers corner

Enter the net :)

Freedom as side effect

Freedom by agreement (of a homogeneous group)

Open end-to-endPacket switching “liberal” ideology

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

– Barlow 1996

Freedom by design or bi-product

Milton Friedman

There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to

increase its profits…

censorship

Remember him?

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Orwell "As I Please," Tribune (7 July 1944)

The problem with censorship? We don’t know what we don’t know.

Remember?

Downfall (Der Untergang, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany 2003)

2010 Chilling effects

Evil euLaThought control?

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Doing on social media

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all

right-thinking people will accept without question...

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds

himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.

Twitter “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country”

when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country

(1) we will attempt to let the user know,

(2) we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld.

(3) As part of that transparency, we’ve expanded our partnership with Chilling Effects

reputation

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates

Reputation online

Large economic focusDomain name turf wars – what’s in a name today?

Reputation: does 1 + 1 = 2?

The social age of reputation

Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace.The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold

Play & reputation: MUD to MMORPG

Avatar, a Sanskrit word that refers to the incarnation of God

Socio-economic reputation systems

Reputation & con games

Pre-social media rules

The subversion of rules

Formalizing friends: Facebook

"more transparency should make for a more tolerant society in which people eventually accept that everybody sometimes does bad or embarrassing things”

Mark Zuckerberg

Paul Chambers

"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"

"En dag kvar av veckan på detta dårhus"

MATS MÜGGE”Jättebra barnskötare - men texten är inte förenlig med vår verksamhet”

“You have one identity… The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly… Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity”

Mark Zuckerberg, 2009

Naken rektor

Reputation mining

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. - Cicero

“Lenddo MAINTAINS THE

RIGHT TO NOTIFY YOUR FRIENDS,

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY if

the borrower fails to repay”

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