The Rootage Amendment Inward The 2D Golden Historic Menses - The 2018 Mitchell Lecture

Here is the video of my Apr 13, 2018 Mitchell Lecture at Buffalo Law School, entitled "The First Amendment inward the Second Gilded Age."

This lecture describes the political economic scheme of gratuitous aspect inward our Second Gilded Age. It explains how nosotros pay for Earth sphere inward the digital age. I debate that the recent Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal typifies the primal work of securing liberty of aspect inward the Second Gilded Age.

First, the key players who ready the basic rules of gratuitous aspect are non state states but powerful mortal actors similar Facebook who effectively deed equally the governors of digital spaces.

Second, gratuitous spoken communication is non actually gratuitous at all. Freedom of spoken communication depends on an infrastructure of gratuitous expression, in addition to that infrastructure must hold upwards paid for inward 1 mode or another.  In the early on 21st century, people pay for gratuitous spoken communication through a grand handle solely vaguely understood past times close people: In provide for the might to speak to anyone at anytime, people concord to increasingly effective in addition to powerful surveillance of their online lives. In short, inward the Second Gilded Age, the infrastructure of digital gratuitous aspect is also the infrastructure of digital surveillance. The 2 are 1 in addition to the same.

Near the goal of the lecture I utter over possible reforms, including my thought of treating only about kinds of digital companies equally information fiduciaries.