[Air-L] Open Internet (speech) and Economics

[Peter Timusk]

After studying legal studies in Canada, I came to understand why there are limits on free speech when it is hate speech for example or in the USA if it incites a riot. Would this limit wealth?


In the Internet context Lessig wrote about arbitrary limits on the number of audience members using the example of an AOL chat room size limit.

So how are Internet free speech promises actually working out?
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Ren Reynolds
Sent: June-25-15 5:56 PM
To: Sarah Myers; air
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Open Internet (speech) and Economics

I’m pondering the question: can one argue that free speech is an economic good - or at the very least correlates to an increase in some economic measures such as, but not limited to, aggregate measures such as GDP.

There may be richer arguments about relationships to access, opportunity wealth distribution etc, but of the moment I’m just pondering gross measures. Thought i would be interested in these arguments too e.g. I could see that increased ‘speech’ of the privileged may lead to more private for them with drags gross economic indicators up.

ren






 

> On 25 Jun 2015, at 17:53, Sarah Myers <sarahmye at usc.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ren,
> 
> Could you be a little more specific about what you're interested in? I've been doing a lot of work on free speech issues and commercial Internet platforms, if that's relevant.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sarah
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Ren Reynolds <ren at aldermangroup.com <mailto:ren at aldermangroup.com>> wrote:
> If anyone is working on the relationship between free speech on the internet and economics, particularly from a public policy point of view - I’d be interested in having a chat.
> ren
> 
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