Access Denied: The Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Rob Faris, the OpenNet Initiative's Research Director and John Palfrey, one of the project's Principal Investigators, lead a discussion of Internet filtering and provided a glimpse of the results of ONI's first global survey of Internet censorship.

In the last year ONI has studied forty countries and found a substantial increase in Internet censorship, colored by complex and dynamic political, legal and social processes. The research will be documented in the forthcoming MIT Press book: Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.

The OpenNet Initiative is a partnership between the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme at Cambridge University, and the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.

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• berkman
• center
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• internet
• filtering
• john
• palfrey
• rob
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[Angewings4all]

CALL AND RESPONSE COM, END SEX SLAVE AND FLESH TRADE. Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. Pornography is neither free nor is it speech (HUSTLING THE LEFT COM), the first amendment does not protect obscenity and sex for sale is illegal in most places USA, cerainly when it comes to "barely legal" children or teens. Why are so many for sale online then? Why are we not stopping this???ITs an epidemic now, and its not just about the open net now -its about saving lives.

[Angewings4all]

The advancement and proliferation of technology has altered our lives. Perhaps most alarming is that it has made us vulnerable to a new realm of criminal activity. The anonymity of the Internet, has created incredible challenges for law enforcement. According to NMEC statistics one in five children ages 10 to 17 who use the Internet have received a sexual solicitation via the Internet. As more people gain access, the numbers of victims increases. See Colorado's Safe Surfing Initiaive for more.

[Angewings4all]

See also Frontline's Taming the Web

[traviscotx]

I wish they would show the powerpoint...

[ELGROOVER]

Thanks for the invite as spect@or to this meeting.

'Net Neutrality' was mentioned just in passing and yet termin@ion of 'Net Neutrality' is likely to be the favoured way forward of disfranchisement. Abandoning 'Net Neutrality' will not only achieve a kind of effective censorship of citizens, by having them put in the slow lane of the inform@ion highway, it will increase profits for ISPs who will be allowed to charge premium r@es on the fast lane only companies and the wealthy could afford.