1. Quinn, Chapter 1 (optional);  
2. Benkler, Wealth of Networks, Introduction (online here - HTML formatted for easy reading - or here - PDF formated for saving paper when printing) -- you may safely skip the section called "Four Methodological Comments" but do read the section that comes after it.
3. The Case of the Killer Robot (online here -- you will need to scroll down and click on the titles of the individual articles that gradually describe the case.)

1. Quinn, Chapter 2, the first six sections, through p. 72; 
2. Excerpts from Kant (with notes);

Optional reading (if you have time and interest)
3. "It's Not Too Late to Save the Internet" by Rebecca MacKinnon

1. Quinn, Chapter 2, the rest (but skip section 10 on virtue ethics for now);
2. "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" by Peter Singer;
3. Prisoners' Dilemma: Game and Explanation: "We are all Prisoners" and "An Ethic Based on Prisoners' Dilemma" by Jonathan Blumen; (another version of the game)

1. Quinn, Chapter 2, section 10, pp. 88-94;
2. Quinn, Chapter 9, the first five sections, through p. 436

1. Quinn, Chapter 9, the rest;
2. "Illusions of whistleblower protection" by Brian Martin,
3.   Brian Martin's summary of Robert Jackall's discussion of whistleblowing;
4. Summary of Jackall's book "Moral Mazes" (pdf) by Damian Grace, University of New South Wales

1. Quinn, Chapter 3, sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9 and chapter summary-- pp. 116-131 and 143-147;

2. Elecronic Frontier Foundation, "The Most Important Law Protecting Internet Speech"

3. Brian Leiter on Cyber-Cesspools, cleaner version, explicit version (avoid the explicit version if you don't want to expose yourself to examples of disgustingly misogynistic and hateful comments)

4. Nat Eliason, The Destructive Switch from Search to Social

5. Olivia de Recat, Entropy and the Internet (a cartoon)

Optional: Andrew Sullivan on Internet addiction: I Used To Be a Human Being -- a long personal narrative of the author's struggles. Skip this if you are pressed for time.

1. Quinn, Chapter 5;
2. MSNBC article on privacy law

1. Quinn, Chapter 6;
2. Daniel Solove, "Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing To Hide'"
3. William Simon, "Rethinking Privacy"

plus whatever you have time for from the articles listed on this page

1. Quinn, Chapter 4
If you have time and interest, read the whole chapter.  If not read at least: Section 4.2 (pp. 162-169), Section 4.3.4 (pp. 172-175), Section 4.4 (pp. 179-186), Sections 4.8, 4.9, and 4.10 (pp.201-211)

2. Richard Stallman, Misinterpreting Copyright—A Series of Errors 

Some blame the internet for polarization and misinformation in our society:

1. “The Daily Me" by Cass Sunstein (You can skip the last five pages, i.e., the section called "What isn't the Issue".); (From his book #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media)

2. Sunstein on Group Polarization and Cybercascades

But others blame the traditional media:

3. A very brief summary by journalist Jeffrey Toobin of research by Jochai Benkler and his colleagues : https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-new-book-details-the-damage-done-by-the-right-wing-media-in-2016

4. And here is a brief account of their more recent research on how disinformation about mail-in voting was spread.  https://www.cjr.org/analysis/trump-twitter-disinformation-voter-fraud-election.php 

On the other hand:

5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/05/trump-misleading-videos-youtube/

[Extra optional items:  If you have more time and interest, here is Benkler's research report: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publication/2020/Mail-in-Voter-Fraud-Disinformation-2020
Prefer an hour-long podcast?  Here you go:  https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/podcast-yochai-benkler-on-mass-media-disinformation-campaigns/ ]

Read in this order:

1. Chapter 9 "Proposals" from Cass Sunstein’s book #Republic
   
   
2. This 2018 article, based on an interview with Jochai Benkler, which begins with his diagnosis of the roots of these problems (ideas we have already encountered in previous readings – though I think the explanations in this article are actually more complete and clear than those in the shorter pieces we read before).  About halfway through, the conversation turns to the question of what to do: how to improve journalistic practices to make it harder for misinformation and propaganda to spread.   http://bostonreview.net/politics/yochai-benkler-deborah-chasman-selling-outrage
   
   
3. This New York Times article, describes the efforts made by Facebook and Twitter to reduce election-related misinformation and finds that it was fairly successful, but required them to undermine basic features of their platforms and may not be sustainable.   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/facebook-twitter-election.html
   
   
4. For a counterpoint, this Washington Post article asserts that these kinds of efforts are far too little to seriously reduce the problems.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/09/facebook-twitter-election-misinformation-labels/
   

If you like watching and listening to people talk instead of reading, or if you just like to get a better sense of what a writer is like,  here’s a talk that Cass Sunstein gave (virtually) to an audience in Chile last month, going over much the same set of ideas that he wrote about in his book. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ay_DJGs_cc&list=UUKSa9-lO2UlFNEvkyW-GpEA 

1. Software designer Tobias van Schneider on design ethics:  "The Art of Being a Hypocrite Designer"
   
   
2. Salkever and Wadwa. "How Design Can Make Tech Products Less Addictive" (Don't neglect to click the button labeled "Story continues" to get the second half of the article.)
   
   
3.  Nicholas Carr (author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing To Our Brains)    "The Platform Is the Conversation"
   Can we imagine a social media platform that is as neutral as a table? A platform designed to enhance users' quality of life and not to enrich the platform owner? A platform that embodies the original vision of the internet championed by writers like Benkler? What would that be like???