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9:24 pm on April 6, 2022 · Charles Mok (2), hong kong (4), netfreedom (8), Stanford CPC (2), Taiwan (2)

WEBCAST APR 12 – Internet Freedom Under Threat: The Divergent Paths of Taiwan and Hong Kong

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On Tuesday 12 April 2022 at 12pm-1pm PDT (19:00=20:00 UTC) the Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center (CPC) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative present ‘Internet Freedom Under Threat:
The Divergent Paths of Taiwan and Hong Kong‘.

Both Taiwan and Hong Kong face increasing threats of online misinformation and cybersecurity risks, but the freedoms of the Internet for their citizens appear to be heading in opposite directions. From censorship and surveillance to influencing public opinions and elections, what are the lessons from the experiences of Hong Kong and Taiwan for the world?

The speakers will provide an overview of the state of internet freedom in Hong Kong from before to after the enactment of the National Security Law in 2020. Censorship and surveillance are on the rise, and a misinformation law is looming on the horizon, to give the government and the police even more unfettered power. They will also cover the techniques used by cyber intrusion groups aimed at toppling election campaigns. Drawing research work from Taiwan AI Labs, they will elaborate on how AI is used to track misinformation on social media particularly on Chinese-language speaking portals.

SPEAKERS
Jason Hsu, Senior Research Fellow, The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Charles Mok, Visiting Scholar, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford Cyber Policy Center
MODERATOR
Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution / Mosbacher Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University.

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cpc-internetfreedom

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3DJTSo9

REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3xnEKf8

TWITTER #netfreedom @StanfordCyber @Hewlett_Found @augama @Kennedy_School @charlesmok @Stanford_GDPi @LarryDiamond #HongKong #Taiwan

SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions)

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/cpc-internetfreedom

 

1:29 pm on January 13, 2022 · georgetown (7), internet freedom (81), Konstantinos Komaitis (8), netfreedom (8), rebecca mackinnon (13), SOPA (14)

WEBCAST JAN 18 – Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout

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livestream

livestreamOn Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 11:00-12:30 EST (16:30-17:30 UTC) the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law hosts a webinar ‘Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout‘. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new report from Freedom House observes both the promise and peril of internet regulation. The global drive to control big tech thus carries a seeming contradiction: it can be an expression of democracy but can also support authoritarianism. On the tenth anniversary of the blackout of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Mozilla in response to proposed internet regulation in the U.S., we ask what we learned from the SOPA/PIPA debates, take stock of where internet regulation stands today, and ask what internet regulations carry the most promise or risk today.

OPENING CONVERSATION
Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia

PANEL
Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Allie Funk, Senior research analyst for technology and democracy, Freedom House
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
Konstantinos Komaitis, Independent Internet Policy consultant / Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation

HOST / MODERATOR
Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law

This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6

REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE)

TWITTER #FreedomOnTheNet @GtownTechLaw @jimmy_wales @AnupamChander @alfunk @kkomaitis @vivekdotca @rmack @freedomonthenet #netfreedom #netgov 

SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions)

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/sopa-pipa10

10:40 am on February 21, 2017 · borders (1), CDT (14), netfreedom (8)

@InternetSociety joins @CenDemTech and others in condemning Social Media snooping at U.S. Borders #netfreedom #NoPassForGov

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Internet SocietyToday the Internet Society joined with 50 other organizations to issue a joint statement expressing concerns about a proposal to require disclosure of social media account passwords as a condition of entry to the U.S.:

https://cdt.org/insight/no-to-dhs-social-media-password-requirement/

A companion statement  from our President and CEO Kathy Brown: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2017/02/internet-society-speaks-out-against-proposed-password-disclosure has been shared on  @InternetSociety social media channels at:

There is also a supporting post explaining more about why social media accounts are of such a great  concern: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/02/danger-giving-social-media-passwords-so-many-other-services-are-connected

Any assistance with amplifying these messages on social channels would be greatly appreciated.

 

1:40 am on December 14, 2011 · CIS Stanford (4), free speech (12), netfreedom (8), stanford (12)

Video: @StanfordCIS Panel – Free Speech in the Networked World #freespeech #netfreedom #ows

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On Nov 30 2011 the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School hosted a panel discussion – From Public Squares to Platforms: Free Speech in the Networked World. A diverse panel from academia, public interest, and private practice, discussed the opportunities and challenges for free speech as it increasingly moves from the town square to the networked world.

Panelists:

  • Dorothy Chou – Senior Policy Analyst, Google
  • Linda Lye – Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California
  • Philip Hammer – Of Counsel, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel
  • Andrew McLaughlin – Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society and the Executive Director of Civic Commons
  • Laurence Pulgram – Partner and Chair of Commercial and Copyright Litigation Group, Fenwick and West LLP

Moderator:

* Nicole Ozer – Co-Chair- California State Bar Cyberspace Committee, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California

 

4:02 am on December 13, 2011 · CIS Stanford (4), copyright (79), DNS (36), internet freedom (81), law (46), netfreedom (8), open internet (25), paul vixie (1), PIPA (5), SOPA (14), stanford (12)

Video: What’s wrong with SOPA @StanfordCIS #SOPA #PIPA #netfreedom

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On December 7 2011 the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School hosted a panel discussion – What’s Wrong With SOPA? – on the evils of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently before Congress.

Panelists:

  • Mark Lemley – William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
  • Josh Mendelsohn – Partner, Hattery
  • David Ulevitch – Founder & CEO, OpenDNS
  • Paul Vixie – Chairman and Chief Scientist, Internet Systems Consortium
  • Fred von Lohmann – Senior Copyright Counsel, Google
  • Albert Wenger – Partner, Union Square Ventures

Moderator:

* Anthony Falzone – Executive Director, Fair Use Project at the Center for Internet and Society

6:02 am on October 8, 2011 · Cory Doctorow (5), lynn st amour (11), netfreedom (8), wipo (2)

Video: Lynn St. Amour at Global Innovation Index 2011 @Internet Society #netfreedom

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In June 2011 Internet Society President Lynn St Amour participated in a panel at the launch of the Global Innovation Index 2011. Since yesterday the video has been widely viewed after Cory Doctorow posted a link on Boing Boing pointing out that, at 49 mins in,  fellow panelist Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) asserted the world would have been better off if the World Wide Web had been patented and licensed. Lynn is on at 14:38 and 42:25.

 

3:40 am on July 4, 2011 · censorship (19), copyright (79), netfreedom (8), NYT (3), open (20)

New York Times editorial on Free Speech and the Internet #netfreedom @nytimes

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New York Times

New York TimesToday, July 4, Independence Day in the USA the New York Times has chosen to speak out on the freedom on the Internet in an editorial entitled Free Speech and the Internet.

Endorsing the recent UN rapporteur’s report, and noting heavy-handed moves like Chinese censorship,  Italy’s defamation case, data retention in Brazil,  three-strikes laws, & the United States’ dubiously legitimate domain seizures, the Times concludes:

The U.N. has proposed sound guidelines to defend free expression: censorship of content online must be transparent and enforced only through the courts. Governments should not rely on private entities like service providers to censor content and should not hold them liable for user content. Counterterrorism should not be an excuse to bar expression, unless it is to prevent imminent threats.

With few exceptions, governments should not adopt Internet registries that require users to reveal their identities. And defamation — so often used as a legal tool to repress political speech — should be decriminalized. Finally, nobody should be banned from the Internet. It is a fundamental tool for enabling free speech.