Berkman Buzz, week of June 25

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Week of June 25, 2007

What's going on... take your pick or browse below.

*Doc Searls calls attention to the Internet Radio Day of Silence.
*Ethan Zuckerman explores the origins of the cyberutopia.
*Rebecca MacKinnon discusses global corporate principles.
*Wendy Seltzer explains why ICANN should maintain neutrality.
*Citizen Media Law: Supreme Court Limits Student Speech.
*Weekly Global Voice: CIA facility in Tunisia?

The full buzz.

“Today thousands of Internet radio stations are observing a Day of Silence to bring attention to the death sentence they face when new royalty rates come into effect on July 16.  The day is organized by Kurt Hanson of RAIN (Radio And Internet Newsletter) and led by KCRW in Los Angeles, which is running interviews with Internet radio notables (including Kurt) throughout the day.”
Doc Searls, “Quiet case”

“In working at the intersection of the Internet and international affairs, I meet a lot of people who believe that the connections we’re able to build with one another in this new virtual space will lead towards a more inclusive political future. My friend and colleague Jim Moore articulated an especially strong version of this argument in his essay The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head, but you can find versions of the argument in the work of many people I admire, including John Perry Barlow, Larry Lessig and Yochai Benkler.”
Ethan Zuckerman, “Fred Turner: the rhetoric of cyberutopianism”

“As I've mentioned on this blog before, over the past year I've been involved with a process to establish a set of global principles on free speech and privacy protection for internet and telecoms companies. In January, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Vodaphone publicly admitted to being part of this process. I recently wrote a brief article discussing the reasons why I think the process is a good thing.” 
Rebecca MacKinnon, “Free speech, privacy, and corporate responsibility: an update”

“ICANN's traveling circus meets in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week. One of the main subjects of discussion has been the introduction of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), after a GNSO Report proposed 19 "Recommendations" for criteria these new domain strings should meet -- including morality tests and ‘infringement’ oppositions.”
Wendy Seltzer, “ICANN: Keep the Core Neutral, Stupid”

“The Supreme Court has once again cut away at student speech rights. In its recent decision Morse v. Frederick, the Court held that a high school did not violate the First Amendment when it suspended a student for displaying a 14-foot banner proclaiming ‘Bong Hits for Jesus’ during an Olympic torch parade.”
Mary-Rose Papandrea, “U.S. Supreme Court Limits Student Speech Rights”

“From his prison cell in Bizerte (65km north of Tunis), The Tunisian prisoner Ramzi Bettibi managed to smuggle a very alarming letter that found its way on to the Internet (available in French). Ramzi is serving a four-year sentence at Bizerte for copying, onto a forum board he moderated, an online statement from a group threatening terror attacks if former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon attended the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) that was held in Tunisia in 2005.”
Sami Ben Gharbia, “CIA facility in Tunisia?”