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Notes: Chapter 6

1. See Matthias Schulz, Controlled Chaos: European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs, Spiegel Online Int’l, Nov. 16, 2006, http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/ 0,1518,448747,00.html.

2. In the United States, studies by the Federal Highway Traffic Safety Administration (FTSA) have shown that motorists disobey speed limits on non-interstates 70 percent of the time. Interview with Earl Hardy, Speeding Expert, Nat’l Highway Traffic Safety Admin., and Elizabeth Alicandri, Dir. of Office of Safety Programs, Fed. Highway Admin., Washingtonpost.com (Mar. 30, 2006), http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/03/23/DI2006032301185.html.

3. Schulz, supra note 1.

4. For a discussion of the differences between rules and standards, see, for example, Alan K. Chen, The Ultimate Standard: Qualified Immunity in the Age of Constitutional Balancing Tests, 81 Iowa L. Rev. 261, 266–70 (1995); Wilson Huhn, The Stages of Legal Reasoning: Formalism, Analogy, and Realism, 48 Vill. L. Rev. 305, 377–79 (2003); Louis Kaplow, Rules Versus Standards: An Economic Analysis, 42 Duke L.J. 557 (1992); Russell B. Korobkin, Behavioral Analysis and Legal Form: Rules vs. Standards Revisited, 79 Or. L. Rev. 23, 29–31 (2000); Larry Lessig, Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace, 45 Emory L.J. 869, 896–97 (1996) (arguing that software code can act as a societal constraint); Joel R. Reidenberg, Governing Networks and Rule-Making in Cyberspace, 45 Emory L.J. 911, 917–18, 927–28 (1996) (discussing the role and establishment of information policy default rules); Joel R. Reidenberg, Rules of the Road for Global Electronic Highways: Merging the Trade and Technical Paradigms, 6 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 287, 301– 04 (1993); Antonin Scalia, The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules, 56 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1175, 1176 (1989) (discussing how rules are more consistent with democracy than standards); Frederick Schauer, Rules and the Rule of Law, 14 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y __________645, 650–51, 658 (1991) (discussing legal realist arguments regarding the distinction between rules and standards); Pierre J. Schlag, Rules and Standards, 33 UCLA L. Rev. 379 (1985) (discussing whether there is a coherent distinction between rules and standards); Cass R. Sunstein, Problems with Rules, 83 Cal. L. Rev. 953, 963–64 (1995).

5. See, e.g., Lawrence Kohlberg, From Is to Ought: How to Commit the Natural- istic Fallacy and Get Away with It in the Study of Moral Development (1971); Lawrence Kohlberg, Moral Stages and Moralization: The Cognitive-Developmental Approach, in Moral Development and Behavior: Theory, Research and Social Is- sues (T. Lickona ed., 1976); Lawrence Kohlberg, The Claim to Moral Adequacy of a Highest Stage of Moral Judgment, 70 J. Phil. 630, 630–46 (1973).

6. See generally Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation (1984); Robert El- lickson, Order Without Law (1991); Wikipedia, Prisoner’s Dilemma, http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma (as of June 1, 2007, 11:00 GMT).

7. Law-and-order conservatives embrace such an idea when they argue that social programs should be largely funded by the private sector, and that in the absence of government redistribution the poor will still receive charity. They assert that higher taxes make it difficult for people to express their commitments voluntarily to each other through charitable contributions. See, e.g., Larry Catá Backer, Medieval Poor Law in Twentieth Century America: Looking Back Towards a General Theory of Modern American Poor Relief, 44 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 871, 929–34 (1995); Alice Gresham Bullock, Taxes, Social Policy and Philanthropy: The Untapped Potential of Middle- and Low-Income Generosity, 6 Cor- nell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 325, 327–31 (1997).

8. SeeDonald L. McCabe and Linda Klebe Trevino, Academic Dishonesty: Honor Codes and Other Contextual Influences 64 J. Higher Educ. 522 (1993).

9. See, e.g.,W. Bradley Wendel, Regulation of Lawyers Without the Code, the Rules, or the Restatement: Or, What Do Honor and Shame Have to Do with Civil Discovery Practice?, 71 Fordham L. Rev. 1567 (2003); James Q. Whitman, Enforcing Civility and Respect: Three Societies, 109 Yale L.J. 1279 (2000).

10. See also Jonathan Zittrain, Internet Points of Control, 44 B.C. L. Rev. 653 (2003).

11.Norman N. Holland, The Internet Regression, in The Psychology of Cyberspace ( John Suler ed., 1996), available at http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/holland .html.

12. See, e.g., Lawrence B. Solum & Minn Chung, The Layers Principle: Internet Architecture and the Law, 79 Notre Dame L. Rev. 815 (2004); Kevin Werbach, A Layered Model for Internet Policy, 1 J. Telecomm. & High Tech. L. 37 (2002); Richard S. Whitt, A Horizontal Leap Forward: Formulating a New Public Policy Framework Based on the Network Layers Model, 56 Fed. Comm. L.J. 587 (2004); see also Akash Kapur, Internet Gov- ernance: APrimer 13, 17–19 (2005), available at http://www.apdip.net/publications /iespprimers/eprimer-igov.pdf (discussing the different layers and how their existence should affect Internet governance).

13. See Alexa, Global Top 500, http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode global&lang none (last visited June 1, 2007). While the sites’ rankings tend to fluctuate, Wikipedia is consistently listed within the top 10.

14. For examples of attempts to create this library, see Internet Archive, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, http://www.archive.org/about/bibalex_p_r.php (last visited June 1, 2007); Alexandria Digital Library, http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/ (last visited June 1, 2007); Posting of Ionut Alex Chitu to Google Operating System, Google’s Digital Library of Alexandria, http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/googles-digital-library-ofalexandria. html (Aug. 13, 2006).

15.Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3% A6dia_Britannica (as of June 1, 2007, 10:00 GMT).

16. Id.

17. The History Place, The Rise of Adolf Hitler, http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/ riseofhitler/ (last visited June 1, 2007).

18. Cats That Look Like Hitler!, http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/ (last visited June 1, 2007) (using the term “kitlers” to describe cats that look like Hitler).

19.Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales underscores that Bomis, his dot-com search engine business, was not directly involved in pornography, pointing out that its content was R-rated rather than X-rated, like Maxim magazine rather than Playboy. This came to light when Wired reported that he had edited his own Wikipedia entry to make it more precise on the matter. See Evan Hansen, Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio,Wired, Dec. 19, 2005, http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69880,00.html.

20. GNE Is Not an Encyclopedia, GNE Help-Moderators, http://gne.sourceforge.net/eng/ help/moderators.htm (last visited Mar. 9, 2007).

21. GNE Is Not an Encyclopedia, The GNE FAQ, http://gne.sourceforge.net/eng/faq.htm (last visited June 1, 2007).

22.Wikipedia, Bomis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomis (as of Apr. 11, 2007, 14:16 GMT).

23. Stacy Schiff, Know It All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?, New Yorker ( July 21, 2006), available at http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact.

24.Wikipedia, Nupedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia (as of Apr. 30, 2007, 18:01 GMT).

25. Id.

26.Nupedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://nupedia.8media.org (last visited June 1, 2007).

27. Posting of Timothy to Slashdot, The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir, http://features.slashdot.org/features/05/04/18/164213.shtml (Apr. 18, 2005, updated Apr. 20, 2005 19:19 GMT).

28. Also known as the “robustness principle.” See Info. Sci. Inst., Univ. of S. Cal., Trans- mission Control Protocol: DARPA Internet Program Protocol Specification ( Jon Postel ed., Sept. 1981), available at http://rfc.sunsite.dk/rfc/rfc793.html.

29. See Wikipedia Meta-Wiki, Wikipedia, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia (as of June 1, 2007, 08:15 GMT).

30.Wikipedia Meta-Wiki, Three-Revert Rule, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Three-revert_rule (as of June 1, 2007, 08:15 GMT).

31.Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator repeatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars. See Wikipedia, Wheel War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wheel_war (as of May 30, 2007 at 21:40 GMT). A meta-meta-rule is that while administrators do not second-guess each others’ actions without good reason, some restrictions require persistent consensus among admins—nearly any admin may unprotect a page or remove a block.

32. See Wikipedia, Wikipedia: No Legal Threats, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: No_legal_threats (as of May 30, 2007 at 21:41 GMT).

33. E.g.,Wikipedia Meta-Wiki, Editing with Tor, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tor (as of June 1, 2007, 08:15 GMT) (“English Wikipedia tends to block every Tor node.”).

34.Wikipedia, Barnstar, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstar (as of June 1, 2007, 08:20 GMT).

35. There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things. For example, General Barnstars are awarded to describe “contributions or editing along a specific theme.” The Barnstar of High Culture, Epic Barnstar, and Ancient Ruin History Barnstar are examples of barnstars awarded “in recognition of excellent contributions” that are within one of seven major categories listed on the Main Page. Wikimedia Commons, Barnstar, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Barnstar (as of June 1, 2007, 08:30 GMT) (describing different barnstars awarded to Wikipedia contributors).

36.Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia (as of June 1, 2007, 08:25 GMT).

37. See Eric S. Raymond, Release Early, Release Often, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (2001), available at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ ar01s04.html.

38. See supra note 2.

39. Jim Giles, Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head, Nature News, Dec. 14, 2005, http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html (last updated Mar. 28, 2006).

40. Except for those younger users that shun it for more instantaneous forms of messaging. See Nate Anderson, Teens: E-mail Is for Old People, Ars Technica, Oct. 2, 2006, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7877.html.

41. Gregg Keizer, Spam Sets Record, Accounts for 94 Percent of E-mail, IT News, Jan. 11, 2007, http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID 44188.

42. See supra Ch. 3.

43. See Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Counter-Vandalism Unit, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism_Unit (as of May 30, 2007, at 17:40 GMT); Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Barnstars, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars (as of Sep. 30, 2007, 00:18 GMT) (“The Defender of the Wiki may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes. It was created after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, when a fraudulent charity tried to take advantage of the widespread media coverage of the article.”).

44. See, e.g.,Wikipedia, User:MartinBot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinBot (as of May 30, 2007, 17:41 GMT).

45. The actual Wikipedia entry stated: “For a brief time, [Seigenthaler] was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven.” John Seigenthaler, A False Wikipedia ‘Biography,’ USA Today, Nov. 29, 2005, available at http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials /2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm.

46.Wikipedia, Seigenthaler Controversy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seigenthaler _Sr._Wikipedia_biography_controversy (as of June 1, 2007, 09:00 GMT).

47.Wikipedia, Deletion Log, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title Special%3ALog &type delete&user Essjay&page John Seigenthaler Sr (as of June 1, 2007, 09:00 GMT) (allowing user to look at deletions for a given Wikipedia page).

48. See 47 U.S.C. § 230 (c)(1) (2000); Seigenthaler, supra note 45.

49. 47 U.S.C. § 230 (c)(1) (2000); see also Ken S. Myers, Wikimmunity: Fitting the Communications Decency Act to Wikipedia, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 163 (2006) (concluding that Wikipedia would be immune under CDA § 230 provisions). There is an unexplored doctrinal issue with CDA § 230: Wikipedia’s unusual structure makes it difficult to ascertain whether a Wikipedia editor should be deemed an agent of Wikipedia for liability purposes, just as a reporter for an online newspaper, as the newspaper’s agent, can make statements that give rise to liability for the paper, CDA § 230 notwithstanding.

50.Michael Snow, Article Creation Restricted to Logged-in Editors (Dec. 5, 2005), http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-12-05/Page_creation _restrictions.

51. See supra note 19.

52.Wikipedia, Congressional Staffer Edits to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con gressional_staffer_edits_to_Wikipedia (as of June 1, 2007, 09:00 GMT).

53. Time on Wikipedia Was Wasted, Lowell Sun, Jan. 28, 2006.

54. See generally James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (2004).

55. Centiare, Directory: MyWikiBiz, http://www.centiare.com/Directory:MyWikiBiz (as of June 1, 2007, 09:05 GMT).

56. Id.

57.Wikipedia, User Talk:MyWikiBiz, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MyWikiBiz /Archive_1 (as of June 1, 2007, 09:05 GMT).

58. E-mail from Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia, to WikiEN-1 mailing list, about My WikiBiz (Aug. 9, 2006, 02:58 PM), http://www.nabble.com/MyWikiBiz-tf2080660 .html.

59.Wikipedia, User:Essjay/RFC, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay/RFC (as of June 1, 2007, 09:00 GMT).

60. See Noam Cohen, After False Claim, Wikipedia to Check Degrees, N.Y. Times, Mar. 12, 2007, at C8, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/technology/12wiki.html.

61.Wikipedia, User_talk:Essjay, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Essjay (as of Apr. 18, 2007, 18:11 GMT).

62. See, e.g., Wikipedia, Wikipedia: Requests for Arbitration/Pedophilia Userbox Wheel War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Requests_for_arbitration/Pedophilia_userbox _wheel_war#Jimbo_as_the_ultimate _authority (as of May 30, 2007, 21:58 GMT), in which Wikipedia editors and administrators warred over whether to permit a Wikipedia user to identify himself as a pedophile on his Wikipedia user page. Jimbo ultimately cut the debate short by removing the label and banning its return, and the Wikipedia arbitration committee recognized Jimbo’s powers, subject to review by the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees, to pretermit what would otherwise be a decision handled through other processes. On the other hand, Jimbo’s creation of a new Wikipedia article for Mizoli’s Meats, a South African butcher shop, was deleted by a sysop twenty-two minutes later, deemed manifestly unworthy of inclusion. SeeDavid Sarno, Wikipedia Wars Erupt, L.A. Times, Sept. 30, 2007, available at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment /news/newmedia/la-ca-webscout 30sep30,1,6497628.story.

63. See A. Michael Froomkin, Habermas@Discourse.net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace, 116 Harv. L. Rev. 749 (2003).

64. Jon Postel was the RFC editor for twenty-eight years, choosing which drafts of requests for comment to publish as IETF RFCs. RFC Editor et al., RFC 2555; 30 Years of RFCs (Apr. 7, 1999), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2555.txt. He was also the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, a name given to the functions he performed in allocating blocks of IP addresses. See Jonathan Zittrain, ICANN: Between the Public and the Private, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1071 (1999); Todd Wallack & Ellen Messmer, Industry Asks: Who Is Jon Postel?, Network World (Apr. 21, 1997), http://www.networkworld.com/ news/0421postel.html.

65. See Rachel Kleinfeld Belton, Competing Definitions of the Rule of Law ( Jan. 2005), available at http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/CP55.Belton.FINAL .pdf; see also Democracy and the Rule of Law (Adam Przeworski & Jose Maria Maravall eds., 2003); Albert Venn Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution 175–336 (5th ed. 1897); Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitu- tion of Liberty 162–76 (1960); Charles de Montesquieu, Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (Anne M. Cohler et al. eds., 1989); Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex, or the Law and the Prince (1998); Philip Selznick, American Society and the Rule of Law, 33 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 29 (2005); Barry R. Weingast, The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law, 91 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 245 (1997); Anthony M. Kennedy, Assoc. Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Speech at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting (Aug. 9, 2003)(revised Aug. 14, 2003), available at http:// www.supremecourtus.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_08–09–03.html; Wikipedia, Rule of Law, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law (as of June 1, 2007, 08:30 GMT).

66.Wiki Truth, Jimbo Found Out, http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title Jimbo_ Found_Out (last visited June 1, 2007).

67.Wikipedia, Articles for Deletion/Angela Beesley, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley (as of Jan 6. 2007, 19:17 GMT).

68.Wikipedia, Articles for Deletion/Angela Beesley (3rd nomination), http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley_(3rd_nomination) (as of May 3, 2007, 16:46 GMT).

69. 17 U.S.C. § 512 (2000); see also Wikipedia, Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability _Limitation_Act (providing a summary of the § 512 provisions of the DMCA) (as of June 1, 2007, 09:00 GMT); supra Ch. 5, note 83 and accompanying text.

70. RU Sirius, Jimmy Wales Will Destroy Google, 10 Zen Monkeys (Jan. 29, 2007), http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/01/29/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-rusirius-googleobjectivism/.

71. Communitarianism is a social theory that rejects the devaluation of community. In asserting that family, friends, and social groups are important to the good life, communitarians focus on three themes: the importance of social context and tradition for meaning- making, the self ’s social nature, and the community’s normative value. Each of these themes suggests the importance of allowing individuals to participate freely in various aspects of society and to shape the society in which they live. See Alasdair MacIntyre, Concept of a Tradition, in Liberalism and its Critics 125, 142 (“We all approach our own circumstances as bearers of a particular social identity. I am someone’s son or daughter, someone else’s cousin or uncle; I am a citizen of this or that city, a member of this or that guild or profession; I belong to this claim, that tribe, this notion. Hence what is good for me has to be the good for one who inhabits these roles.”); Michael J. Sandel, Justice and the Good, in id., 159, 165 (Sandel ed., 1984) (“[I]n so far as our constitutive self-understandings comprehend a wider subject than the individual alone, whether a family or tribe or city or class or nation or people, to this extent they define a community in the constitutive sense. And what marks such a community is not merely a spirit of benevolence, or the prevalence of communitarian values, or even ‘shared final ends’ alone, but a common vocabulary of discourse and a background of implicit practices and understandings within which the opacity of the participants is reduced if never finally dissolved.”); Michael Walzer, Thick and Thin 27 (1984) (arguing that meaning is made with reference to particular social contexts that are “shared across a society, among a group of people with a common life”); see generallyDaniel Bell, Communitarianism and Its Critics (1993); Robert Nisbet, The Quest for Community (1953); Cass R. Sunstein, Beyond the Republican Revival, 97 Yale L.J. 1539 (1988); Robert J. Condlin, Bargaining with a Hugger: The Weakness and Limitations of a Communitarian Conception of Legal Dispute Bargaining, Or Why We Can’t All Just Get Along (Berkeley Press Legal Series, Working Paper No. 1194), available at http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent .cgi?article 1000&context robert_condlin.

72. See Europa Glossary, Subsidiarity, http://europa.eu/scadplus/glossary/subsidiarity _en.htm (last visited June 1, 2007); Wikipedia, Subsidiarity, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Subsidiarity (as of June 1, 2007, 09:00 GMT).

73. See IDG News Serv., Chinese Censors Block Access to Wikipedia, ITWorld.com, June 14, 2004, http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/040614wikipedia/; Wikipedia, Blocking of Wikipedia in Mainland China, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Wikipedia _in_mainland_China (as of June 1, 2007, 08:45 GMT).

74.Not every version of Wikipedia has the same policies. The German Wikipedia recently instituted a test project to have concurrent versions of pages—stable and unstable—so that the edits would need to be approved by a Wikipedian of a certain stature before going live. The plan was designed to address vandalism problems and allow edits to previously protected pages. See Daniel Terdiman, Can German Engineering Fix Wikipedia, CNET News.com, Aug. 23, 2006, http://news.com.com/2100–1038_3–6108495 .html.

75. See supra note 1 and accompanying text.

76.Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. This license allows anyone to copy, redistribute, or modify the work for commercial or noncommercial purposes, as long as the author is properly attributed and that any resulting derivative works are also under the same license. See GNU Project, Free Documentation License, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html (last visited June 1, 2007). The latter provision is often referred to as “copyleft.” Id. There is currently some debate surrounding the state of Wikipedia’s license. The GFDL is not currently compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike (BY-SA), a similar and more widely used license. There is interest in making Wikipedia available under the CC BY-SA or compatible license, which would make Wikipedia’s content better able to be incorporated into other works. Such a process would likely require an update by the creators of the GFDL (the Free Software Foundation) to allow for compatibility with the CC BY-SA license.

77.Wales may be reconsidering: “‘When we’re turning down millions and millions of dollars in advertising revenue that could be used, to for example, put computers in schools in Africa . . . we have to [be] very thoughtful and responsible about why we’re doing it,’ he said in an interview.” Wendell Roelf, Wikipedia Founder Mulls Revenue Options, Reuters, Apr. 20, 2007, http://reuters.com/internetNews/idUSL1964587420070420.

78.Wikipedia, Mirrors and Forks/Abc, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors _and_forks/Abc (as of June 1, 2007, 09:10 GMT).

79.Wikipedia, Talk:Gracenote, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gracenote (as of June 1, 2007, 09:10 GMT).

80.Dove, Dove Cream Oil Body Wash (online broadcast), http://dovecreamoil.com/ (displaying results of Dove Cream Oil contest where users were asked to make their own commercials); Video: Angry Attack Ads Roll In, CNET News.Com, Mar. 31, 2006. http://news.com.com/1606-2-6056633.html (showing a medley of user-submitted commercials criticizing the Chevy Tahoe).

81. But see Louise Story, The High Price of Creating Free Ads, N.Y. Times, May 26, 2007, at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/26content.html (explaining the downsides of relying on user-generated content for advertising).

82. Rebecca Popuch, Yelp Elite Status, http://www.yelp.com/user_details_reviews_self ?userid -4XnJXO0YQhcl7Dz2Yir_g&rec_pagestart 10&review_sort time, Feb. 4, 2007. Popuch notes that Yelp does not permit users to delete their own profiles, so changes of heart cannot be promptly reflected by initiating a mass deletion of one’s contributions to the system. See infra Ch. 9 for further discussion of this policy.

83. See supra Ch. 4, note 72 and accompanying text.

84. See, e.g., Posting of Rebecca Mackinnon to RConversation, Google in China: Degrees of Evil, http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/01/google_in_china.html, ( Jan. 25, 2006, 12:49); Press Release, Reporters Without Borders, Google Launches Censored Version of Its Search Engine ( Jan. 25, 2006), available at http://www.rsf.org/ article.php3?id_article 16262; Amnesty Int’l, Amnesty International Launches Global Campaign Against Internet Repression, http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT 300162006 (last visited June 1, 2007); Curbing Corporate Complicity in Internet Filtering and Surveillance: Tech Firms Pursue Code of Conduct, Open Net Initiative (Feb. 1, 2007), http://www.opennetinitiative.net/blog/?p 137.

85. See Surowiecki, supra note 54, at 15–17, 72, 85.

86. Ilse Arendse, ‘MySpace Will Fail . . . ’, News24, Apr. 20, 2007, http://www.news24 .com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2102112,00.html.

87. See Deciphering the Mystery of Bee Flight, PhysOrg.com, Nov. 30, 2005, http://www .physorg.com/news8616.html.