Zittrain has extensively examined and consciously critiqued the Internet for years now and has identified many faults to how we organize and protect the integrity of online information. At perhaps his most cautious he warns about the inevitable susceptibility of e-books and similar forms of publishing to become new areas for censorship, noting that suing writers for defamation has become far easier. He uses the example of rereading a favorite passage of a favorite book that has undergone a slight tweak on a Kindle, how the reader experiences “only a nagging feeling that it isn’t quite how one
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