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Code Is Law, Or Is It?
Daily #079
So I recently stumbled upon the work of Lawrence Lessig (courtesy of Lee Pera).
Below are some initial links I went through:
When Code Isn't Law | Virginia Law Review (JSTOR)
Drawing from his 1999 book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig is credited with coining the phrase βcode is law,β which is the title for his 2000 Harvard Magazine article. In these writings, Lessig explores issues with the then-nascent internet and posits that the absence of government regulation does not mean there should be the absence of any regulation. Instead, Lessig asserts that code written by software engineers will provide the rules of interaction and embody value judgments that will set rules for how broader society interacts in cyberspace.
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