Killswitch

The Internet is under attack. This award-winning documentary explores the threat Internet censorship imposes on free speech, innovation, and democracy.

While not an expert on the Internet, I feel I have a pretty god handle on technology. This film still taught me a few things about certain laws and regulations that affect how the online world works, and how much influence the MPAA has. (And I apparently forgot that Chris Dodd was involved.) The reason I can't give the movie a full endorsement is that it is so obviously one-sided. I tend to think it is on the right side, but even so, a great documentary should be a little bit more fair. There is no attempt at an argument about the violation of ownership rights.

Although the focus is "censorship", we also dip into the idea of information monopoly (the Western Union and AT&T examples), and even the private funding of public campaigns, which seems like an entirely different issue. But for Lawrence Lessig, it is very much inter-related.