please join me in welcoming rebecca mackinnon and jillian york. [applause] >> as a professional journalist i get to ask the first series of questions before we turn it over to the audience. i would like to start with you, rebecca. you call your book for a new way of looking at the way internet policies are conducted and empowerment on network users, regular people who use the internet both to hold our government accountable wherever it they are and also corporations which can be as powerful as nation states. and in the past couple of months with the online protests over the rather aggressive anti copyright measures that were withdrawn in congress people feel this can actually work. internet protests and sharing of information can lead to changes in government policy but it doesn't seem as easy when it comes to corporations who are not responsible to voters. what would it take to get companies to balance their drive for profits with these more moral questions? >> we can look to other sectors, you have milton friedman, writing an essay that is the o

please join me in thanking rebecca mackinnon and jillian york for this excellent discussion. [applause] rebecca mackinnon "consent of the networked" is available for sale right over there. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] . . election fraud. and a lot of places, particularly in arkansas and southern state, one of the things that political policies did was in postelection would be votes late at night. people from the dead, sanitary code from people who would guide the last two years and now is called the cemetery vote. you couldn't count the ballots until the cemetery vote. so that's the title of the book, trained to. the election and dark i think is kind of like election fraud throughout the south. and i think the cultural election fraud probably can be traced back to reconstruction can shortly after the civil war at the end of reconstruction. and in the south, arkansas and alabama and mississippi and louisiana. there is a great struggle to gain control about the merchant class, planters, business leaders in the democratic party in the south. great struggle to r