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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Information...
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by Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain
Sales Rank: 302403
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press February 29, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262541963
ISBN-13: 978-0262541961
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
"In Access Denied an unlikely avant-garde of scholars, lawyers, hacktivists, and computer programmers come together to combat efforts by repressive regimes, corporate firms, and intelligence agencies to surveil, filter, and block the Internet. Through critical analysis, regional surveys, and the use of innovative software, the authors reveal the penumbra of a networked global civil society emerging from the Dark Side's efforts to eclipse the Internet. Everyone who supports open thought and the free flow of information should read Access Denied."
—James Der Derian, Director, Global Security Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
"No one had a clear sense of the nature of Internet censorship until now. This extraordinary work maps the unfreedom of the Net. Unfortunately, that state is becoming the norm."
—Lawrence Lessig
"The Web provides everybody with access to information. That makes those in power nervous. Transparency is the best defense against further narrowing of information access and the starting point for rolling back existing barriers. Access Denied provides the definitive analysis of government justifications for denying their own people access to some information and also documents global Internet filtering practices on a country-by-country basis. This is timely and important."
—Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Product Description
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information—often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion—that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend.
Internet filtering takes place in at least forty states worldwide including many countries in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. Related Internet content control mechanisms are also in place in Canada, the United States and a cluster of countries in Europe. Drawing on a just-completed survey of global Internet filtering undertaken by the OpenNet Initiative (a collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, and the University of Cambridge) and relying on work by regional experts and an extensive network of researchers, Access Denied examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives. Chapters discuss the mechanisms and politics of Internet filtering, the strengths and limitations of the technology that powers it, the relevance of international law, ethical considerations for corporations that supply states with the tools for blocking and filtering, and the implications of Internet filtering for activist communities that increasingly rely on Internet technologies for communicating their missions.
Reports on Internet content regulation in forty different countries follow, with each country profile outlining the types of content blocked by category and documenting key findings.
Contributors: Ross Anderson, Malcolm Birdling, Ronald Deibert, Robert Faris, Vesselina Haralampieva, Steven Murdoch, Helmi Noman, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Mary Rundle, Nart Villeneuve, Stephanie Wang, and Jonathan Zittrain
Customer Reviews & Comments
This is a beautifully put together book in terms of brains, content, presentation, and coverage. An edited work, with ten primary authors, it actually reflects the collaborative efforts of an international network of collaborators, and can safely be considered the seminal basic reference on this topic. The first 150 pages include an introduction and six chapters, on measuring global internet filtering, the politics and mechanisms of control, tools and technology for filtering, filtering and the international system, corporate filtering, and ethics. The rest of the book, 285 pages, is taken up by regional overviews and then country-specific summaries of filtering policy. The motives for filtering are three: politics & power; social norms & morals, and security concerns. Two types of filtering occur: announced, and disguised. Announced filters show a blocking page, unannounced filters pretend there was an error. Blocking anc be of entire sites, or specific pages identified by keywords. The eye-opener for me was that filtering is not just on content, but on capability. Skype and Google Earth are two of the primary capabilities that are being denied to the people around the world by repressive ignorant governments who would rather have perpetual poverty than allow the people to leverage every aspect of the Internet including free global communications. This is a first class intellectual, social, economic, and political contribution to the literature. I recommend the following ten books along with this one: The leadership of civilization building: Administrative and civilization theory, symbolic dialogue, and citizen skills for the 21st century The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing Paperbacks) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom The Web of Inclusion: Architecture for Building Great Organizations The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
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