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  1. @rmack china does have internet, but certain kinds of speech are blocked. #550updates
  2. @rmack speaking on how to define china's "internet." is it actually internet? #550updates
  3. @rmack: more ground for innovative structures and we're only seeing embryonic sparks of it now #550updates
  4. @rmack might be less company regulation if they sorted out issues with constituents in advance #550updates
  5. @rmack hope most forward thinking companies will welcome more constituent activism and think about how to benefit from it #550updates
  6. @rmack this creates trust and legitimacy of product because constituents/users were involved and felt had ownership #550updates
  7. @rmack constituents could have more say in development of tech before get end product and have problems with it #550updates
  8. @rmack users could do more to organize and engage in shareholder activism if see selves as constituents #550updates
  9. Venturelli: need to free ideas to "social exploitation" to see how ideas impact development #550updates
  10. Venturelli: citizen led sovereignty surging in cyber space which will lead to more activism towards use/diffuse of ideas #550updates
  11. Venturelli: legislation won't "stop the bleeding" we need to think about authorship differently. can't stop diffusion of ideas #550updates
  12. Venturelli: we have a crisis of authorship on the internet #550updates
  13. @JPBarlow would rather have people singing my song that have internet compromised to stop ppl from hearing them #550updates
  14. @JPBarlow there are a lot of institutions trying to preserve industrial period and old biz models by claiming they own speech #550updates
  15. @JPBarlow youtube censorship is more crowdsourced censorship than government censorship #550updates
  16. @JPBarlow existing governance not ready for increase in number of smartphones across the world #550updates
  17. John Bergmeyer, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Knowledge speaking now: newamerica.net/events/2012/55… #550updates
  18. Margie: then we use these technologies for long-term support in crisis situations #550updates
  19. Margie: we try to get victims connected at least minimally #550updates
  20. Marige: we make sure emergency responders have connectivity #550updates