"Approaches 1"

"I was entering into the online world pretty deeply in the eighties, and I was offended by how glibly these comparisons came up—almost invariably inappropriately. My feeling was that the more people got into this habit, the less likely that people remembered the historical context of all this. And as you know, one of the injunctions of Holocaust historians is that we must never forget, we have to remember. And I just thought, Well, I’m going to do a little experiment and see if I could make people remember."

Dan Amira at New York talks with Mike Godwin about the eponymous internet law.