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Online Free Expression: Values, Progress, and Complexities

This is a liveblog of a panel at Google’s Liberty at 2010 conference. Darius Cuplinskas of the Open Society Institute UK is moderating this panel. Speaking is Dunja Mijatovic of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Bosnia/Herzegovina, and Merve Alici of the Turkish Young Civilians (Turkey) and Eva Simon of the Hungarian […]

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Has the Internet been oversold?

The BBC’s Madeleine Morris introduces the next panel: “Is the potential of the Internet as a force for positive political change being oversold?” and asks users–both here and remote–to participate by asking her questions on Twitter @Mad_Morris.  Though she claims to be “unabashedly old media,” Morris is jumping in directly to a discussion on the […]

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More on Content Regulation: Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, India

Rob Faris concluded his speech by introducing three panelists: Tattu Mambetalieva of the Civil Initiative on Internet Policy (Kyrgyzstan) and the OpenNet Initiative; Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society (India); and Shahzad Ahmad of Bytes for All (Pakistan). Tattu (I’ll be referring to her by first name for the sheer fact that […]