I. Blog and Twitter Overview
II. The State of Censorship
- Anecdote
- Youtube Ataturk Videos in Turkey
- What Countries Filter
- Social/Moral
- Political/Power
- Security concerns
- Three Graphs
- Motivations for Filtering
- Filtering & Rule of Law
- Filtering & Voice and Accountability
III. Normative Arguments for and Against Censorship
- Pro: States have the right to protect their environment
- Con: Technical Filtering is Fatally Flawed
- Con: Human Rights Concerns
- Con: Violates 'End to End' Principle
- Con: The Slope of the Freedom Curve
IV. Types of Censorship
- IP Blocking
- DNS Tampering
- Proxy-Based
- Self- Monitoring Requirements
- Case Study: China
- Ministry of Public Security's Golden Shield, or Great Firewall of China [proxy, and target DNS blocking]
- self-censorship- search engines block results, Jing Jing and Cha Cha reminding Internet users they are being watched; ISPs voluntarrily restricting content;
V. Trends
- more states adopting filtering regimes
- more targeted in nature and carried out 'just in time'
- in-stream filtering- ISPs from China, Russia, India providing filtered services to people in other countries
- citizen journalists practicing self-censorship
VI. Circumvention Tools
- Computer Security
- Data Protection
- Communication
- Internet Browsing
- Reporting: Herdict
VI. Debate | Should Congress pass H. R. 4780- The Global Online Freedom Act
- impose export controls on the sale of any item "to an end user in an internet-restricting country for the purpose, in whole or in part, of facilitating Internet censorship."
- requirements that no servers are to be located within the borders of a state deemed to be a "designated Internet-restricting country."
- require a United States-based corporation to check with the State Department before providing "to any foreign official of an Internet-restricting country information that personally identifies a particular user of such content hosting service.’’
VII. Visit from Sarah Labowitz, Inside Look at Yahoo!'s human rights operations
VIII. Work on Youthmap Projects