[Libs-Or] INFORMATION Fwd: [District Dispatch] Experts warn against tighter Internet restrictions worldwide

[Diedre Conkling]

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From: <jterry at alawash.org>
Date: Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Subject: [District Dispatch] Experts warn against tighter Internet
restrictions worldwide
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District Dispatch has posted a new item, 'Experts warn against tighter
Internet
restrictions worldwide'

A panel of experts addressed international governments’ attempts to control
their citizens’ use of the Internet at the National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) today.

“Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace”
– designed to promote a new book with the same title – featured a
conversation between four speakers, including two principal investigators of
the Open Net Initiative and Bob Boorstin, Director of Public Policy in
Google’s D.C. office.

Moderator Moises Naím opened the session by explaining that at the
Internet’s inception, it was clearly making a positive impact on democracy;
now, “governments have caught up” and discovered that it’s a powerful
tool they can use to control people. Censorship and limitations on access
are
evolving from firewalls and filtering to “next-generation” controls that
and leverage existing agencies and enforce restrictions through user
behavior
with Web 2.0 technologies.

Ultimately, many of these problems are social, not technological, and
organizations invested in freedom of access can’t rely solely on technology
to foster democracy, said panelist Ronald Deibert, co-founder and principal
investigator of the Open Net Initiative.

For more information about the participants and the book, visit the NED’s
Web
site at:
http://www.ned.org/events/access-controlled-the-shaping-of-power-rights-and-rule-in-cyberspace

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http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4919

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Diedre Conkling
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR  97365
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Work email:  diedre at beachbooks.org
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