Video: Vint Cerf on Internet Freedom #openinternet #internetfreedom
Vint Cerf talks to the Council on Foreign Relations‘ Hagit Bachrach about the future of the Internet and what it means for international development and foreign policy.
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David Solomonoff on the perils and pitfalls of Internet Freedom #freeculture
ISOC-NY President David Solomonoff writes about the pitfalls of prescriptions for Internet freedom: Hackers Fight For Freedom With Net Tech; Ignore Politics, Psychology At Their PerilInternet freedom initiatives must be independent of political connotations, run on a decentralized infrastructure, and use technology that is subject to public review by security experts. Most importantly, users must have complete trust in the skills and integrity of the people providing those tools and services.
If they don’t the cure could prove worse than the disease.
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Video: Eben Moglen Fosdem 2011 Keynote #freeculture
Eben Moglen was a keynote speaker at FOSDEM 2011, a free and open software developer conference, in Brussels earlier in the month. He took the opportunity, a year to the day after after his ISOC-NY talk Freedom in the Cloud, to further elaborate on, advocate for, and call for contributions to, his ‘freedom box‘ concept – a distributeded personal webserver based social network. Regardless of the privacy concerns that drove the original idea recent events in the Middle East have served as an eye-opener as to the vulnerability of centralized systems.
- YouTube video is here or below, or download XviD
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- 2/8 Jonathan Corbet Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net (LWN.net)
- 2/15 Jim Dwyer Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You (NY Times)
- Democratic Underground discussion of the above.
- 2/16 Adrianne Jeffries Debate: Will Americans Ever Own Their Own Servers? (NY Observer)
- 2/16 Bruce Sterling Freedom Box, a plug-in wall-wart revolution for $29 (Wired)
- 2/16 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Freedom Box: Freeing the Internet one Server at a time (ZDNet)
- 2/16 Surat Lozowick Eben Moglen: A free world needs free software (New Europe)
- 2/17 Dan Goodin FOSS maven says $29 ‘Freedom Box’ will kill Facebook (The Register)
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- 2/23 A Kickstarter Project to raise an initial $60k has already passed its goal
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Video: Hillary Clinton – Internet Rights and Wrongs #netfreedom
The US State Dept’s Co.Nx network presented Hillary Clinton addressing Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices and Challenges In A Networked World at George Washington University on Feb 15 2011. This was a follow up to her Internet Freedom speech of January 2010.
Video/chat was made available live via Adobe Connect and facebook. Following the speech, Alec Ross, the U.S. Department of State’s Senior Adviser for Innovation, and Dan Baer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor,participated in an additional chat session.
Below is PBS video – also available is the official State Dept version
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The Speech as released to the press before the event.
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- 2/15 Nancy Scola Clinton@State: Seriously, #NetFreedom’s a Big Deal (TechPresident)
- 2/15 Gloria Goodale Hillary Clinton champions Internet freedom, but cautions on WikiLeaks (Christian Science Monitor)
- 2/15 Mark Landler/Brian Knowlton U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom (NY Times)
- 2/15 Kenneth Corbin Clinton Outlines Internet Freedom Agenda (Datamation)
- 2/15 Mary Beth Sheridan Clinton warns governments that limiting Internet will backfire (Washington Post)
- 2/16 Bruce Sterling Secy of State Clinton espouses pure cognitive dissonance strategy (Wired)
- 2/16 ‘So This is America’: Veteran Ray McGovern Bloodied and Arrested At Clinton Speech (CommonDreams)
- 2/23 Jillian York Grasping the new online reality (Al-Jazeera)
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Video: PdF Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom #pdfleaks
On Dec 10 2010 the Personal Democracy Forum presented a Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom in NYC. Participants included Mark Pesce, Esther Dyson, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon, Jay Rosen, Carne Ross, Douglas Rushkoff, Katrin Verclas, Gideon Lichfield, Micah Sifry, Jeff “Oprah” Jarvis, Arianna Huffington, Charles Ferguson, Andrew Keen, Zeynep Tufekci, Tom Watson, Dave Winer, Emily Bell, and Andrew Rasiej. Some video is below:
- Hashtag: #pdfleaks
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Video: Eben Moglen @DebConf10 : Freedom in The Cloud II
At the recent Debian Conference in NYC Eben Moglen gave a follow-up to his Feb 5 ISOC-NY talk, addressing specifically the role of developers. His theme “How We Can Be the Silver Lining of the Cloud“.
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Moglen plans a third presentation at the Open World Forum in Paris on September 30.
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David Solomonoff, “Taking Back the Edge: Freedom and the Internet Model” #NYC Mon 8/9 free
David Solomonoff, President of the Internet Society of New York, isoc-ny.org will give a talk on “Taking Back the Edge: Freedom and the Internet Model” at the monthly meeting of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, http://manhattanlp.org.
Time: August 9th (Second Monday of every month) 7:00 pm
Location: Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
Street: 140 2nd Ave
City/Town: New York, NYDavid’s notes:
I believe that historians will come to see the development of the Internet as an event comparable to the development of movable type in importance because of the way it has revolutionized human communication.The original decentralized, edge-based design of the Internet allowed every connected computer to act as both a client and a server — both to be a publisher and a reader, a broadcaster and an audience.
As the Internet continues to grow, maintaining it requires ongoing development of both the technology and the standards and protocols that are used to send and receive information across the Net.
While some of the issues involved seem highly technical, even esoteric, the decisions that are maintained can potentially change the Internet from it’s open architecture to a closed one that is more condusive to repressive social structures where a only small group can send messages and everyone else can only receive them, and where the inner workings of the technology are kept secret and cannot be altered by anyone except for a small elite.
The mission of the Internet Society (ISOC) is to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
In pursuit of this mission, ISOC is actively involved in the open development of standards, protocols, and the technical infrastructure of the Internet.
ISOC’s activities are founded upon the principles of open, unencumbered, beneficial use of the Internet. This requires, among other things, freedom of self-expression without censorship, the right to privacy and the use of encryption to that end, and cooperation between network providers using openly developed standards and protocols.
I’ll discuss the long-term benefits that the current Internet model brings to an open society and some the challenges to that model that come both from repressive political forces and monopolistic interests that seek to convert the Internet to closed, highly centralized, proprietary technologies.
David Solomonoff is the President of the New York Chapter of the Internet Society as well as the Library Systems Manager of the SUNY Downstate Medical Research Library. He has worked in an IT capacity for libraries and educational publishers for twenty years and is an active open source software advocate.
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Mar 12: World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Internet censorship is still a major issue in many countries worldwide. With that in mind, the Paris-based international organization Reporters without Borders (RSF) is promoting its yearly World Day Against Cyber Censorship on March 12th. On the occasion, RSF issued its latest list of “Enemies of the Internet“, where China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Tunisia are among the most prominent examples of countries censoring the web.Reporters Without Borders will celebrate World Day Against Cyber Censorship on 12 March. This event is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet that is unrestricted and accessible to all. It is also meant to draw attention to the fact that, by creating new spaces for exchanging ideas and information, the Internet is a force for freedom. However, more and more governments have realised this and are reacting by trying to control the Internet.
via Global Voices Online » Global: World Day Against Cyber Censorship.
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Senate Hearing on Global Internet Freedom: CDT Report
The U.S. Senate held a hearing on ‘Global Internet Freedom and the Rule of Law, Part II‘ last week. Wary corporate invitees stayed away in droves, with the notable exception of Google who sent VP Nicole Wong.
Erica Newland of CDT reports:
Ms. Wong and fellow witnesses Rebecca MacKinnon, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and Omid Mermarian, an Iranian blogger now living in San Francisco, all mentioned US trade policy as a cornerstone in the battle against censorship. Ms. MacKinnon voiced concern over outdated laws that “make it difficult for US Internet companies to legally serve activists from sanctioned countries like Iran, Syria, and Zimbabwe.”
This analysis was echoed by Mr. Mermarian, who reported that current interpretations of sanctions have impeded the ability of Iranians to access the Internet and publish content online. On the other hand, said Ms. MacKinnon, it should not be so easy for U.S. companies to provide censorship and surveillance technology to regimes that consistently use this technology to suppress peaceful speech. Ms. Wong laid out a thoughtful framework for how a responsible company can proceed – and succeed – in international environments that threaten the ideal of an open and free Internet. She argued that “Internet censorship should be part of our trade agenda, because it has serious economic implications,” disfavoring international companies and limiting consumers’ choices. The Google Vice President’s strong statement on this issue prompted post-hearing questions about whether or not US trade representatives will challenge China’s censorship practices at the World Trade Organization.
But while there seemed to be general consensus on the need to reevaluate US trade policies, statements by the senators also highlighted the competing interests that the US government is seeking to balance in this space. Senator Al Franken, for example, posed a question about the inclusion of copyright enforcement provisions in trade agreements; he seemed unaware of the potential for copyright provisions in US trade agreements to lead to overbroad copyright enforcement without careful balancing of speech concerns that can have a significant collateral impact on free expression. Meanwhile, Senator Durbin discussed child pornography and threats to national security, claiming that “most of us would approve of an Internet company cooperating with the government” in these cases. Neither senator seemed to recognize that such broad statements about cooperation between the US government and US companies often ricochet throughout the world and into the palms of countries like Iran and China, where the exigencies of “national security” and “pornography” are often used as pretenses for censorship. American policymakers must be mindful of how their proposals, however well motivated, are perceived abroad.
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