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Censoring the Net

Rob FarisBerkman Center for Internet & Society

June 26, 2008

Today

Global survey of filtering The problem of regulating speech on the net The problem of not regulating speech on the net Social media, content mingling and filtering Promoting freedom of expression:

short-term & long-term Distributed research

Today

TorontoOxfordCambridgeHarvard

TodayRestricting Speech on the Net

Today Intellectual Property law Registration, licensing and ID requirements Liability for defamation, etc. (people or

companies) Arrest and intimidation Search result filtering Indirect – DoS, hacking Monitoring and surveillance Technical Internet filtering $$ (high cost of access)

Restricting Speech on the Net

Tunisia

China

UAEMyanmar

Saudi Arabia

Iran

Syria

Yemen

Uzbekistan

Ethiopia

South Korea

Bahrain

Pakistan

Jordan

India

Azerbaijan

Singapore

Political Filtering

Social Filtering

Security/Conflict Filtering Morocco

Oman

Thailand Vietnam

Sudan

Tajikistan

The problem of regulating speech on the net

The problem of regulating speech on the net

Transparency Specificity Due process and judicial review

or Effectiveness Informality Prior restraint

The problem of not regulating speech on the net

Child pornographyViolenceHate speech ……

Saudi Arabia

Social media and content mingling

Today

TodayPromoting freedom of expression:

short-term & long-term

Distributed research

Expanding the number of people who gather information

Increasing the number of people who use the information collected

Herdict

= verdict of the herd Enabling and leveraging a wider distributed

network of those that are interesting in contributing

http://herdict.org/

http://herdict.org

rfaris@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Rob FarisBerkman Center for Internet & Society

June 25, 2008