Talk:Topics

Does anyone feel inclined to group the topics on this list? For instance I would like to list transparency in congressional voting records and other gov data: Sunlight Foundation, Govtrack.us, and others. Does it makes sense to group this topic under any general heading? Sethwoodworth 12:58, 24 November 2008 (EST)

• This sounse like a good idea, but I'm not sure how to do it. Perhaps it's something just to do and ask later. --G 12:28, 28 November 2008 (EST)

• Went ahead and organized it. Forgiveness, not permission. Plus, it kept me from studying for 15 minutes, and you can't put a price on procrastination. Feel free to reorg (natch), especially if you know something more about discourse theory than I do (= spending two minutes on Wikipedia). Topics could change categories according to the perspective people wish to bring to them (e.g. Google Book Search, which could easily be discussed as a social/economic tool, but the existing writeup made it sound like the author wanted to discuss it as a new legal issue instead). --Jgruensp 14:28, 29 November 2008 (EST)

Re: Pornography

I think we might think of Porn on the net not only through the free speech/pedophilia topics. Pornography is one of the main uses of the net, whether we like it or not, and it seems that a great part of the architecture and governance of the web today must have been influenced by that fact. It could be interesting to think about this connection as a structural idea. --Ayelet