Siva Vaidhyanathan
Forfatter af The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
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Siva Vaidhyanathan is currently director of the undergraduate program in communication studies in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.
Image credit: Siva with Boing Boing, NYU 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Værker af Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the… (2004) 421 eksemplarer
Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (2001) 288 eksemplarer
Copyright as Cudgel 1 eksemplar
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The old orthodoxy, championed by Milton Friedman, said that corporations were their most helpful when they pursued profit to the exclusion of everything else.
The new orthodoxy, developed by Edward Freeman, said that corporations had a social responsibility to its stakeholders, a term I remember learning about that time in business school.
Funny, I don’t recall any actual debate on the subject in the business school itself. But of course business school is more like a technical college than an Athenian school on deep moral and ethical concerns. Or at least it was then.
It seems the social responsibility folks got a little carried away in the US, with some corporations taking sides on the abortion debate and refused to fund public healthcare that had any relation to medical abortion or family planning for that matter.
That is how they interpreted their social responsibility.
Today we have a new debate on the social responsibility of tech firms like facebook, Twitter, and YouTube toward free speech in the US and elsewhere. The European Union now has strict regulations on managing the privacy of data collected by these firms and stiff fines for non-compliance.
In “Antisocial Media” Siva Vaidhyanathan argues that argues that US regulators need to get on board quickly. Since this book was published three years ago the chorus has only grown louder.
And as with other areas when business gets involved in social responsibility — or social engineering as some call it — there will be plenty of controversy.
When Twitter banned Donald Trump from the airwaves for ostensibly fomenting rebellion, Conservatives complained that Twitter had breached Donald Trump’s freedom of speech, notwithstanding the fact that the First Amendment of the US Constitution does not include protecting lunatics on social media. It’s a wholly private affair.
(You can tell that times have changed when getting banned from social media is a fate worse than impeachment.)
In the US, one always has to take the Conservatives with a grain of salt. They want the long hand of government out of the marketplace until it affects their sacred cows: free speech, abortion, etc., etc.
Which leads to ask the question: what exactly do Conservatives believe in? No Federal Government? States rights/government but not Federal Government? Libertarian ideals a la Peter Thiel? A “thought police”?
Why would people so enamoured with dismembering government put so much money into manipulating it for their own ends? And why wouldn’t the profit maximizers simply cede obvious public services to government that they really don’t want to manage themselves?
The answer is pretty obvious: pouring money into the political system helps the profit maximizers protect their interests. For them it’s just business.
It’s no wonder that some on the left confuse “conservative” and “capitalist” with “hypocrites.”
Conservatism is in a muddle.
And for those us expecting business to show more social responsibility, be careful what you wish for.… (mere)