Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkleris an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionEducator
CountryIsrael
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movement analyzing weathermen
Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.
imperfection dimensions core
Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.
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Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.
organization ideas practice
Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
fighting blow september
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
chronic contain fear public
I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.