http://madisonian.net/2007/02/14/tis-a-pity-shes-a-luddite/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2007/02/14/tis-a-pity-shes-a-luddite/comment-page-1/#comment-178928 How to Read a URL at madisonian.net: a weblog about law, technology, and society Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:33:34 +0000 http://madisonian.net/archives/2007/02/14/tis-a-pity-shes-a-luddite/#comment-178928 [...] My Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning reminded me that Congress is encouraging the IRS and the FTC to deal with www.irs.com, www.irs.net, and www.irs.org – websites that offer tax-related information but that may confuse consumers into thinking that they are reading the real and official Internal Revenue Service website, which is located at www.irs.gov.  The problem here reminds me, again, of some important socio-cultural problems when it comes to consumer protection and the Internet.  Why don’t people learn?  More after the break.Conventional wisdom has it that we’ve been using the popular version of the World Wide Web for more than a decade, so we all have figured it out.  Anyone who hasn’t figured it out even runs the risk of being put in jail, at least if they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.  The fact that the convention wisdom may well be wrong in the IRS case (and wrong still, as anyone who visited www.whitehouse.com will remember) raises an important question:  Why haven’t people learned this stuff already? [...] [...] My Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning reminded me that Congress is encouraging the IRS and the FTC to deal with http://www.irs.com, http://www.irs.net, and http://www.irs.org –; websites that offer tax-related information but that may confuse consumers into thinking that they are reading the real and official Internal Revenue Service website, which is located at http://www.irs.gov.  The problem here reminds me, again, of some important socio-cultural problems when it comes to consumer protection and the Internet.  Why don’t people learn?  More after the break.Conventional wisdom has it that we’ve been using the popular version of the World Wide Web for more than a decade, so we all have figured it out.  Anyone who hasn’t figured it out even runs the risk of being put in jail, at least if they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.  The fact that the convention wisdom may well be wrong in the IRS case (and wrong still, as anyone who visited http://www.whitehouse.com will remember) raises an important question:  Why haven’t people learned this stuff already? [...]

]]> http://madisonian.net/2007/02/14/tis-a-pity-shes-a-luddite/comment-page-1/#comment-168152 Frank Pasquale Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:24:14 +0000 http://madisonian.net/archives/2007/02/14/tis-a-pity-shes-a-luddite/#comment-168152 Jennifer Chandler is working on a very interesting paper documenting courts' frequent habit of forcing people to adopt or get used to new technology, even if it is invasive. Her Technoprudence course also addresses this phenomenon. Jennifer Chandler is working on a very interesting paper documenting courts’ frequent habit of forcing people to adopt or get used to new technology, even if it is invasive. Her Technoprudence course also addresses this phenomenon.

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