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

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