Christian (and AIR), Thanks for this important work. I just this morning re-tweeted the Atlantic article - https://twitter.com/kanarinka/status/748959083588296704 - where you are mentioned, to World University and School's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch. CC WUaS plans to offer and teach CC MIT OCW-centric courses on hacking - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_(certified,_ethica...) - newly emerging from CC Wikidata (leaving Wikia), and as WUaS accredits, and vis-a-vis MIT OCW, for example here - http://search.mit.edu/search?site=ocw&client=mit&getfields=*&output=xml_no_d... - and especially in CC World University and School's planned online accrediting law schools - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - in all countries' official languages. Thank you. Best regards, Scott - http://worlduniversityandschool.org On 7/1/16 6:03 PM, Christian Sandvig wrote:

Dear AIR colleagues,

On Wednesday I joined other Internet researchers and filed a lawsuit against the US Government to protect the legal right to conduct online research. The case was just called "key to the future of social science." I thought this issue might be of interest to some of you. If so, please feel free to read and share the details below. Note that I filed this lawsuit as a private citizen and it does not involve my university.

Yours sincerely, Christian

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Why I am Suing the Government (or: I write scripts, bots, and scrapers that collect online data) https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/07/01/why-i-am-suing-the-government/

Most of What You Do Online Is Illegal. Let's End the Absurdity. by Christian Sandvig and Karrie Karahalios *The Guardian *(Op-Ed) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/30/cfaa-online-law-illega...

Legal Complaint: Sandvig v. Lynch https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/sandvig-v-lynch-complaint

Researchers Sue The Government Over Computer Hacking Law https://www.wired.com/2016/06/researchers-sue-government-computer-hacking-la...

When Should Hacking Be Legal? A Group of Academics and Journalists Say a Federal Computer-Fraud Law Criminalizes Their Work http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/when-should-hacking-be... _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

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