The Signal, 09.23.11 & 09.24.11, Free Speech in the Digital Age: A Constitution Day Symposium

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September 23rd & 24th, 2011, on The Signal…

“In the past, personal and political liberty depended to a considerable extent on government inefficiency.  The spirit of tyranny was always willing, but its organization and equipment were generally weak.  Progressive science and technology have changed all that completely.”  

-Aldous Huxley, 1948

Little could Mr. Huxley have imagined today’s internet and the digital apparatus that surrounds us all – cell phones, GPS, and ‘smart’ devices of all sorts, and so this week we ask:  Are we better off with these tools, or are they making tools of us?

This episode of The Signal is a collection of highlights from the 2011 Constitution Day symposium, “Free Speech in the Digital Age,” organized by MICA and the Maryland ACLU and recorded in front of a live audience on September 17th at MICA’s Brown Center.  The panel included ACLU policy analyst Jay Stanley, artist Trevor Paglin, and blogger Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish.