[Infowarrior] - Book: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

[Richard Forno]

Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Our book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet
Filtering, published by MIT Press, is hitting bookshelves now!

http://opennet.net/accessdenied

Book 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.
Editors

Ron Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain
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