Orcas CrossRoads Lecture Series will host professor, writer and lecturer, David Skover, who will present “The Huxleyan Internet and the Antiquated First Amendment” on Sunday, April 1 at 2 p.m. at Orcas Center.

Organizers offer a sampling of what Skover will discuss:

“Although we often hear accolades for the Internet – everything from ‘the global village’ to ‘a vibrant marketplace of ideas’ – the Internet has its darker sides.  Indeed, there is much on the Internet that resembles the mind-numbing entertainment culture associated with Aldous Huxley’s anti-utopian Brave New World.  It is a safe haven for defamatory charges, serious invasions of privacy, flourishing hard-core obscenity, and national security breaches.  What are among the greatest and most threatening excesses of the Huxleyan Internet?”

Professor Skover suggests that “we will express surprise at the stunning character of some of the most egregious instances of Internet abuses,” say organizers.

Skover is the Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law at the Seattle University School of Law. He teaches, writes, and lectures in the fields of federal constitutional law, federal courts, free speech and the Internet, and mass communications theory. He is also a regionally acclaimed opera and musical theater singer. Skover graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Domestic Affairs at Princeton University. He received his law degree from Yale Law School.

Come with questions and for the Q & A and reception following the presentation. Tickets are $10 at Darvill’s Bookstore, online at www.orcascrossroads.org or at the door. Some complimentary tickets are available at the Orcas Senior Center.