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

MC Cambre mcambre at ualberta.ca
Fri Jun 26 08:25:48 PDT 2015


In response to this, my thoughts would be that there may be a correlation
between how much debt an individual carries and their freedom (as
experienced phenomenologically perhaps) to communicate online. Some
considerations include the propensity of many employers to request Facebook
and other social media passwords or page sites as part of the interview
process. The more precarious an employee the quieter and more obedient
he/she needs to be, neoliberal subjectivation and all that.
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, diananeal <diananeal at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm not sure about economics. But when someone thinks(doesn't necessarily
> be true)they approach the world in a different way, and are more likely to
> be compliant with decisions that are made. I would think economics plays a
> part in that the more choices a person has the more they feel they have a
> relationship, an investment in how things will turn out. Someone has a say,
> and has choices theoretical they would be more productive, and prosperous.
> So yes, free speech would be an economic good. Everyone wants to be heard,
> and understood. I think free speech would provide a way for people to meet
> a basic human need.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ren Reynolds <ren at aldermangroup.com>
> Date: 06/25/2015  16:56  (GMT-06:00)
> To: Sarah Myers <sarahmye at usc.edu>, air <air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org>
> 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
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> > On 25 Jun 2015, at 17:53, Sarah Myers <sarahmye at usc.edu> wrote:
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> > 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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