[-empyre-] VII: free speech and its ends

[Ana Valdés]

The TAZ book is excellent, great writing and great thesis. Hakim Bey is one if the few netphilosophers going to survive the hype.
Ana

Skickat från min iPhone

11 okt 2012 kl. 15:48 skrev Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org>:

> On 10/11/2012 06:38 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>> 
>> in both cases, people feel their areas are their 'homes,' and that
>> implies one might do what one wants. Fb is a corporate state; email
>> lists are TAZ (temporary autonomous zones), very different, but people
>> feel comfortable in both -
> 
> Yes that's true. The difference is the source of the coercion: the state in the former example, private individuals in the latter. They don't compare.
> 
> Facebook is an interesting overlap, but the specific examples I have in mind are in the UK where people are now being prosecuted for writing the wrong thing online (and I am not using this as a euphemism for "making threats" or "organizing riots").
> 
> I'm just reading the TAZ book...
> 
> - Rob.
> 
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