The web was invented 25 years ago by a British physicist with a strong sense of Western values. Sir Tim Berners-Lee still envisions a free, open, democratizing system of universal communication. Berners-Lee has recently advocated a digital Bill of Rights to protect against the growth of government censorship that Google's Eric Schmidt calls "mechanisms of repression." In China, citizen bloggers can be arrested. Pakistanis can't watch YouTube; and Russians won't read independent websites about Ukraine. Censorship and privacy violations reveal limits to the Global Village as the worldwide web becomes truly worldwide.
The Web at 25: Free Flow of Information or Censorship?
More
- Citizen Lab on Internet censorship in Somalia
- Citizen Lab
- Freedom House on Internet freedom http://www.freedomhouse.org/issues/internet-freedom#.UyNdBj9dV8E
- Google transparency report
- Internet Rights and Principles
- Internet Watch Foundation
- MacKinnon's 'Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom'
- Saleem on digital censorship, global free speech
Credits
Guests:
- Rebecca MacKinnon - New America Foundation - @rmack
- Sana Saleem - Bolo Bhi - @sanasaleem
- Sarah Cook - Freedom House - @freedomhouseDC
- Robert Guerra - Citizen Lab - @citizenlab