Victoria Taylor, une modératrice du réseau social américain en charge de la rubrique très populaire « Ask Me Anything » a été virée jeudi 2 juillet. En guise de protestation, d’autres modérateurs ont décidé de rendre inaccessible au grand public certaines des rubriques les plus populaires du site.
Hello again, reddit!
I’m an inventor, an innovator, an engineer, a teacher, and a National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee. I’m a jack-of-all-tech-trades, a Longhorn, a farmer, and a hiker of the wilds of Patagonia. With David R. Boggs, I created Ethernet, a technology that changed the world.
Ethernet has withstood the test of time for more than 40 years, thanks to the collective hard work of many, many individuals. Thanks to its standardization through the IEEE 802.3 Standard for Ethernet, this little invention of ours will continue to shape the future for what I hope is many more years to come.
I’m Bob Metcalfe and I enjoyed my last AMA so much, I thought I’d come back for round two. Please ask me anything!
I am a co-founder of Creative Commons, and the founder of Rootstrikers. But I was not the first #Rootstriker.
It was Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/ who initially persuaded me that none of us were going to make progress on a wide range of issues — from Internet freedom to climate change — until we found a way to address the corruption within our government.
As I described in a lecture after Aaron's death http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2013/02/lessig-chair-lecture-aarons-laws.html, that was in January 2007. In June that year, I announced that I was putting my work on Free Culture aside, and taking up the challenge of building a movement to fight that corruption.
For the first couple years, Aaron worked with me — first, as a founding board member of Change Congress, and then with Fix Congress First! But the urgency and opportunity of an Obama presidency led him away from a fight focused on corruption alone. That was the birth of Demand Progress; Fix Congress First! then became Rootstrikers.
Today, I am incredibly honored and happy to let you know that these organizations have now joined leadership to become allies in our respective fights for a better, truer democracy.
Ask me anything! And here are some ways you can help:
1) Become a Rootstriker and join the fight to end the corrupting influence of private money over American politics: http://www.rootstrikers.org/
2) Please watch my recent TED talk, titled "We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim" -- and help push it over one million views: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html
3) Donate to Demand Progress/Rootstrikers so we can hit the ground running and add new energy to the fight for money-in-politics reform.
http://www.demandprogress.org/donate/
4) Pay what you want for Demand Progress's book Hacking Politics (to which I contributed) about the effort to defeat SOPA: