“The platforms that host that content can’t readily police all of it the way that a newspaper can carefully select what should go in as a letter to the editor,” says Harvard University Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain, who is also co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Some pre-screening of content is still done. YouTube prevents some video from being posted through a copyright-screening tool that was created after Google took over.

via Stolen photos of stars find ‘safe harbor’ online – San Jose Mercury News.

MIT Researcher Wants to Master the Art of Online Partying.
He’s pooling ideas from people around the country about the best ways to have a good time—even when you’re not in the same room.

But Willow Brugh, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, who advised the organizers of the M.I.T. event, said that while public-interest hackathons are often very good at publicizing technical and social problems and generating novel ideas for solving them, hackathon success is no guarantee of commercial success.

via Hacking the Breast Pump – The New Yorker.

Berkman’s Judith Donath and Zeynep Tufekci on “What does it mean when the culture of nerds and techies becomes mainstream?”

Be Careful of the Consumer Side of Geek Culture – NYTimes.com.

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society held a kickoff event for its Digital Problem Solving Initiative, a year-long program that brings together students and mentors from across the University to solve campus-wide issues through technology, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Gutman Library on Thursday.

via Berkman Center Kicks Off Digital Problem Solving Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson.

“It won’t be too long before we look back on this era and think it’s nuts,” said Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain. He and other technology experts noted that Apple has a history of solving business riddles that have eluded others, as it did with the iPod, which thrived not only because of its stylish hardware but also because big record companies agreed to distribute their music through Apple’s iTunes store.

via With Apple Pay, the tech leader takes its shot at replacing the wallet – The Washington Post.

Yochai Benkler on why unauthorized whistle-blowing and public accountability leaking is so important in national security.

Want to Reform the NSA? Give Edward Snowden Immunity – The Atlantic.

Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, wonders if there’s a better way to stop stolen equipment from working. He proposes “kill switches,” like those found in iPhones, as a means for keeping American arms, given to allies, from working in the hands of enemies.

via Should Tanks Be More Like iPhones? | Popular Science.

“The platforms that host that content can’t readily police all of it the way that a newspaper can carefully select what should go in as a letter to the editor,” says Harvard University Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain, who is also co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

via Naked truth: US law doesn’t require websites to block revealing photos stolen from stars | Star Tribune.

Existing technology might have made it possible to disarm ISIS from a distance

via The Case for Kill Switches in Military Weaponry – Scientific American.