Harvard Law School students in “Internet, Law and Politics” have developed this site to build out their arguments about the ethics and legality of United States technology companies operating in China and participating in its filtering and surveillance regime. There are five people testifying in class today, each have posted their testimony online.
Blogpulse says that Rebecca MacKinnon’s post about the Chinese blog censorship issue is the most linked-to in the blogosphere. With good reason. I was ashamed not to be one of those links earlier! On a related topic, here’s an article in Ethical Corporation. Big props to Scoble for his take on it. Read also what … Read more
A generally good, clear piece by Fortune senior writer Marc Gunther tackling the important question of the ethics of companies and their involvement in the world’s most repressive regimes from an informational policy standpoint. There are many subtleties between the types of involvement of the companies named in the article, though. We need a reliable … Read more
I am here in Hammamet, Tunisia for the World Summit on the Information Society. On many levels, it’s lovely to be here — beautiful, temperate, a gathering of all manner of interesting, public-spirited people from around the world who care about information and communications technologies. Inside the enormous function hall where the world’s telecomms/technology regulators have gathered … Read more
Red Herring has a good piece on the recent Open Net Initiative bulletin about the blocking of weblogs in China by keyword.
At the OpenNetInitiative (a joint project of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre; the Advanced Network Research Group in the Cambridge Security Program at the University of Cambridge, and the Berkman Center), we released a new bulletin regarding the extent to which, and means by which, the Chinese government filters posts … Read more