Liberation Technology 3/4/2010 ** Inconvenient Truths

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: allison () stanford edu
> Date: February 26, 2010 7:43:05 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Liberation Technology 3/4/2010 ** Inconvenient Truths
> Reply-To: allison () stanford edu

>          Stanford Program on Liberation Technology
>                          Presents
>
> Inconvenient Truths
>
> Rachel McKinnon
> Visiting Fellow
> Center for Information Technology Policy
> Princeton
>
> Thursday, March 4, 2010
> 4:30-6:00pm
> Wallenberg Theater, Bldg 160
> Stanford University
>
> Abstract
>
> While the Internet can be a profoundly empowering force, it will not
> fulfill its potential unless we recognize and address a number of
> "inconvenient truths." Authoritarian regimes are evolving and adapting
> to the Internet age. China is "exhibit A" in this regard, and has
> become a model for others to emulate. With the help of multinational
> companies, some non-democratic and quasi-democratic governments are
> working to shape the Internet's architecture, coordination, and legal
> governance in a direction more conducive to their survival. Other
> even more "inconvenient truths" involve democracies themselves:
> democratically elected lawmakers in a range of countries are passing
> laws to address immediate domestic problems of crime, terror, and
> copyright theft, but are doing so by implementing legal norms and
> technical standards that both enable and help to justify censorship
> and surveillance in repressive countries. These "inconvenient truths"
> lead to complicated questions about the future of authoritarianism,
> democracy,  and sovereignty in the Internet age which challenge many
> 20th-century assumptions.
>
>
> Rebecca MacKinnon is a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's
> Center for Information Technology Policy where she is working on
> a book about China, the Internet, and the future of freedom in
> the Internet age.  MacKinnon is cofounder of Global Voices Online
> (globalvoicesonline.org), an award-winning global citizen media
> network that amplifies online citizen voices from around the
> world. She is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative
> ( globalnetworkinitiative.org), a multi-stakeholder initiative
> to advance principles of freedom of expression and privacy among
> Internet and telecommunications companies. She is also on the board
> of the Committee to Protect Journalists (cpj.org).
>
> Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon has lived in China on and
> off since childhood.  She worked for CNN in Beijing for nine years,
> serving as CNN's Beijing Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 1998-2001
> and then as CNN's Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent
>
>
>                         * * * * *
>
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> and participate.  For further information please contact Kathleen
> Barcos <kbarcos () stanford edu>
>
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