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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
