Another "Male Information Society" Production...
So Yale Law School's Information Society Project is hosting yet another conference, this one on the regulation of search engines. The website is here, and it asserts:
"Regulating Search? is the first academic conference devoted to search engines and the law. The symposium will bring together technologists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, executives, lawyers, computer scientists, and activists to discuss the emerging field of search engine law. It will examine trends in litigation involving search engines, identify the interests that are implicated by the increasing legal control of search, and discuss appropriate public policy responses."
The marketing slogan (or whatever you want to call it) of the Yale Law School Information Society Project is "Democracy and Civil Liberties For A New Age." So what this vision of "democracy and civil liberties" is bears considering. Judging from the speaker line up at this conference, men will not be relinquishing their stranglehold on power any time soon. Looks like only one of the 22 conference speakers listed is female.
Every time I read about how "liberal" Yale is I really get sick to my stomach. If that kind of sexist elitism is liberalism in action, count me out.
Update: A second women speaker was added to the roster since this was posted, and a few men as well, so that there now seem to be 2 women out of a total of 26 speakers.