[Air-L] lawsuit on behalf of researchers who study the Internet

Scott MacLeod scott at scottmacleod.com
Sat Jul 2 11:05:36 PDT 2016


Christian (and AIR),

Thanks for this important work. I just this morning re-tweeted the
Atlantic article -
https://twitter.com/kanarinka/status/748959083588296704 - where you are
mentioned, to World University and School's Twitter feed -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.

CC WUaS plans to offer and teach CC MIT OCW-centric courses on hacking -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_(certified,_ethical)
- newly emerging from CC Wikidata (leaving Wikia), and as WUaS
accredits, and vis-a-vis MIT OCW, for example here -

http://search.mit.edu/search?site=ocw&client=mit&getfields=*&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=http%3A%2F%2Focw.mit.edu%2Fsearch%2Fgoogle-ocw.xsl&requiredfields=WT%252Ecg_s%3ACourse+Home%7CWT%252Ecg_s%3AResource+Home&sectionlimit=WT%252Ecg_s%3ACourse+Home%7CWT%252Ecg_s%3AResource+Home&as_dt=i&oe=utf-8&departmentName=web&filter=0&courseName=&q=hacking&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0
-

and especially in CC World University and School's planned online
accrediting law schools -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - in
all countries' official languages.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Scott

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org



On 7/1/16 6:03 PM, Christian Sandvig wrote:
> Dear AIR colleagues,
> 
> On Wednesday I joined other Internet researchers and filed a lawsuit
> against the US Government to protect the legal right to conduct online
> research. The case was just called "key to the future of social science."
>  I thought this issue might be of interest to some of you. If so, please
> feel free to read and share the details below. Note that I filed this
> lawsuit as a private citizen and it does not involve my university.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Christian
> 
> --
> http://www.niftyc.org
> 
> 
> 
> Why I am Suing the Government
> (or: I write scripts, bots, and scrapers that collect online data)
> https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/07/01/why-i-am-suing-the-government/
> 
> Most of What You Do Online Is Illegal. Let's End the Absurdity.
> by Christian Sandvig and Karrie Karahalios
> *The Guardian *(Op-Ed)
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/30/cfaa-online-law-illegal-discrimination
> 
> Legal Complaint: Sandvig v. Lynch
> https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/sandvig-v-lynch-complaint
> 
> Researchers Sue The Government Over Computer Hacking Law
> https://www.wired.com/2016/06/researchers-sue-government-computer-hacking-law/
> 
> When Should Hacking Be Legal? A Group of Academics and Journalists Say a
> Federal Computer-Fraud Law Criminalizes Their Work
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/when-should-hacking-be-legal/489785/
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- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric
OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in
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