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On August 9 2002 The Register published an essay of mine, entitled 'Damn the Constitution'.
In it I outlined my views of the way the US dominated the cultural and legal aspects of today's Internet and outlined a proposal to zone the Net and ensure that within Europe we could do things our own way.
The essay generated a lot of interest. You can read the Register version. You can also read the Register followups - a selection of my emails, and a discussion between me and Andrew Orlowski.
I wrote a piece for The Guardian about the topic - available here - and also discussed some of the same issues in my column on the BBC Website. And I appeared on Online Tonight to argue the case with David Lawrence - listen to it here.
On the evening of Thursday August 22nd I appeared on Newsnight on BBC2, at around 2245 UK time, debating with John Perry Barlow, but little light was shed on the issues and anyway Newsnight doesn't have an on-demand archive :-)
But if you bump into David Mery he has the whole thing on his phone [yes - his phone].
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