“The architecture of the Internet, as it is right now,” writes Lawrence Lessig, a constitutional scholar at Harvard University, “is perhaps the most important model of free speech since the founding [of the American republic]. This model has implications far beyond e-mail and Web pages. Two hundred years after the framers ratified the Constitution, the Net has taught us what the First Amendment means. If we take this meaning seriously, then the First Amendment will require a fairly radical restructuring of the architectures of speech off the Net as well.” read the rest