1. The downloading of movies/music ought to be decriminalized.
2. The Government should only be allowed to protect the identity of a person online.
3. Government and private organizations ought to facilitate world wide wireless internet access.
4. Censorship ought to be eliminated from all aspects of the internet.
5. Search engines, like Google, ought to allow the full spectrum of the web to be searched, not just sites that may 'interest' the user.
6. Internet privacy should be regulated by individuals.

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1. Wikipedia and other similar information websites should be regulated and must have a specific standard for who is allowed to contribute to the site.
2. Hate speech sites should be monitored/regulated by the government.
3. The Internet should have privacy settings for children, or parents should be able to set limitations on the kinds of sites their children could have access to.
4. Facebook should be open only to college students.
5. Companies ought to let their employees know if they monitor their employees usage of the Internet.
6. Businesses/companies should not be allowed access to a potential employees' blogs and or social networking page.

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1. The Internet should guarantee the privacy of its user insomuch as said user does not wrongfully use the resource.
2. The Internet ought provide a forum in which anything may be said and shared insomuch as it does not slander anyone else or fall under the categorization of hate speech.
3. Rules and regulations should be in place to prevent those persons under the age of 18 from viewing things that are not age-appropriate such as, thought not limited to, pornography, websites dealing with alcohol and drugs, and those consisting of extremely radical thoughts and notions.
4. The Internet should always be free of charge to anyone with access.
5. Search engines ought provide the broadest range of websites to those parties using them so as to expose said parties to as many different viewpoints and ideas as possible, though disregarding extreme websites should be permissible.
6. The Internet should allow people a free means of communication with others without huge regulations from outside parties such as, but not limited to, governments.

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1- Social networking sites should be limited to users 18 years of age or older.
2- The internet should be particularly dedicated to protecting the privacy of minors.
3- The internet should promote access to pornography as socially unacceptable and deviant.
4- The internet should encourage responsible participation in systems of government.
5- The internet should value knowledge and/or noteworthy information over gossip.
6- The internet's purposes should not be confused or intermingled with endeavors of capitalism.

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1. The internet should regulate what is poseted on open sites.
2. The internet should garantee privacy and freedom of speech to bloggers.
3. Sites such as Facebook and Myspace should regulare the kinds of pictures users put up.
4. The internet should ban cotroversial or harmful blog sites such as The Nuremberg Files.
5. The internet should only allow experts in a particular field to add information to sites like Wikipedia, but then charge people who read the sites to pay for the writers.
6. The internet should eliminate sites such as Googlemaps that sllow users to find the location of others without their consent.

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1. The internet should provide the user with the amount of privacy they are comfortable with

2. The internet should allow each you to have the freedom to go to any website they wish (with the exception of young children)

3. The internet should not be owned or controlled by any one person or organization

4. The internet should allow for users to express their opinions and comment if they would like

5. Each user should have the ability to create and participate in another or new forum if they do not feel the original is appropriate, suitable, and/or useful

6. The internet should remain an international entity

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1. The government should not be able to restrict speech on the Internet any more than they can with other mediums of expression.

2. There should be restrictions on hate speech and fighting words on the Internet, as in other modes of expression.

3. Copyright on the internet ought to have the same protections as it does in other media.

4. There ought to be electronic access to all forms of entertainment and media (books, movies, music, etc.) with advertising payment or small payment by the users themselves.

5. There ought to be international rulings on Internet restrictions, since it is a medium that crosses national borders.

6. Private information and records of Internet use should be able to be accessed by legitimate agencies with proper and reasonable documentation.

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Zittrain suggests "banning the creation and distribution of harmful code" to increase overall security of online mediums. This method is admittedly over-inclusive and under-inclusive. Who can police the development of codes, or regulate methods by which it is transported? Would such a law be too easy to break to ever be implemented? (Zittrain 150).

Zittrain describes a sense of individual responsibility that could be enforced in, for instance, office technologies, with the development of virtual machines. How do "virtual PCs" differ from traditional PCs? Are they physical devices, or a medium of software that can enable multiple PCs to run on a single machine, with customized settings and unique user abilities? (Zittrain, 152).

"Network Neutrality" is a much-debated faction of Internet Law, by which ISPs are relieved of the responsibility of online actions of their subscribers. Zittrain points out that, if allowed regulation of or involvement with their users online activity, ISPs could charge them for access to certain web sites, or ban certain software for them. Does the future for ISPs appear consistent with today, or with the sensitive state of our economy, will ISPs start to charge and regulate their users to up their business? If so, then will these actions ultimately hurt ISPs' business, and will people just find a way around paying/regulations?
(Zittrain, 178).

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1. Zittrain talks about using legal interventions to help solve the generative problems but admits that this would be rather difficult due to reasons such as the extension of sovereignty and amateur technology producers are unlikely to respond in any way (168). Do you think this is a plausible solution, or would you agree that there are too many loopholes?

2. Multiple solutions are considered, but Zittrain seems to think that there could be simpler solutions to the problems with the internet (174). What could these solutions be? Would it be modeled after something on an individual basis, or would larger organizations be in charge of finding and fixing problems?

3. Privacy is obviously a very important issue that is discussed regarding the internet, especially since people have started putting more and more "private" information on their computers. Chapter 8 also talks about privacy and how anything on the internet could potentially be seen by someone else without you knowing. Should the government specifically be allowed to look at what they want? With legislature such as the Patriot Act they can now get around certain parts of the Constitution without punishment. Is this a good idea or should it be regulated more?

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1. If obesity is already an epidemic here in the United States, what if this "dream of unlimited consumer sovereignty" is the future; what actions can we take to ensure that the human race doesn't die out due to lethargy? (Republic.com 2.0, 171)

2. Is this 'partial' "laissez faire," enough to protect the property rights of the people? What more could the Government do to make sure it is protecting the people yet, not "regulating" the internet? (Republic 2.0, 159-162)

3. In nations where free speech is regulated by the Government, hackers still find a way to beat the system. Is the internet the catch all for the oppressed masses to finally stay one step ahead of the Government? (Republic 2.0, 161 & 163)

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