This document discusses the history of freedom of expression from ancient Athens and Rome to the modern day. It covers key developments like the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also examines how technology has impacted censorship and access to information over time, from the printing press to the internet. Contemporary issues around online reputation and social media are also addressed.

1. Mathias Klang @klang67
Digital Presence, expression & reputation

2. 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 name
Robs me of that which not
enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Shakespeare’s Othello
(Act 3, scene 3, 155–161)

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

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

5. 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

6. Would any politician be against it…
Truth (Mill)
Tolerance (Bollinger)
Democracy (art xix)

7. Highpoint 1948

8. 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
UNDHR, 1948, Article 19 frontiers.

9. - 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)

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

11. Technology, Gatekeepers & free
information

12. Media centralization: Publishers

13. The state as threat, discussion was on imprimatur
Almost 300 years ago

15. Means of production
In the hands of a small clique

16. “Social” control

17. Exodus 20:14
THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

18. speakers corner

19. Enter
the net :)

20. Freedom as
side effect

21. Freedom by agreement (of a
homogeneous group)
Open end-to-end
Packet switching
“liberal” ideology

22. 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

23. Freedom by design or bi-
product

24. There is one and only one social responsibility of business—
to use its resources and engage in activities designed to
increase its profits…
Milton Friedman

25. censorship

26. Remember him?

27. 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)

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

29. Remember?

30. Downfall (Der Untergang, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany 2003)

31. 2010 Chilling effects

32. Thought control?
Evil euLa

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

34. Doing on social media

35. 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.
fear

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

37. (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
when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a
specific country

38. reputation

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

40. Reputation online

41. Large economic focus
Domain name turf wars – what’s in a name today?

42. Reputation: does 1 + 1 = 2?

44. The social age of reputation

45. 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

46. Play & reputation: MUD to
MMORPG

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

48. Socio-economic reputation systems

52. Reputation & con games

53. Pre-social media rules

56. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
The subversion of rules

57. Formalizing friends: Facebook

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

59. "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!"
Paul Chambers

60. "En dag kvar av veckan på detta
dårhus"

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

62. “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

63. Naken rektor

64. Reputation mining

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

67. “Lenddo
MAINTAINS THE
RIGHT TO NOTIFY
YOUR FRIENDS,
FAMILY AND
COMMUNITY if
the borrower
fails to repay”

68. Klout

69. http://www.aitellu.com/Aitellu/blog/2011/12/21/svenskatwitter/

70. 1. Har angett Sverige, Sweden, eller någon av 20 svenska städer eller
platser.
2. Har skrivit sin presentation (bio) på svenska.
120 090 identifierades på sin location och de resterande 26 905 på sin
presentation (bio).
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72. THANKS!

73. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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