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| DATE | 2008-03-19 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [frederick@nyu.edu: [free-culture] Invitation to ILI Colloquium on Net Censorship, Tue, March 25, 6:30pm]
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Digital Dilemmas: Discussing Responses to Internet Censorship and
Surveillance *
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
6:30pm
NYU Law School, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 214
40 Washington Square South
Map
Please join us for a panel discussion, with a reception to follow.
When national governments want to block particular Internet activities or
content—or see what users are doing—they typically turn to the private
companies that manage pieces of the Internet, including Internet Service
Providers, search engines, email services, blogging and news portals, and
even hardware providers.
As pressures to filter, censor, and monitor the Internet have mounted, some
internet and communications technology (ICT) companies, academics, human
rights activists, socially responsible investors, and civil society
participants have held a series of conversations about how to respond. This
event will tap project participants to have as candid a conversation as
possible about the process in which they've engaged, and the role that
corporations should play in response to government-mandated Internet
censorship and surveillance, with particular but not exclusive emphasis on
authoritarian regimes.
Moderator:
Jonathan Zittrain
Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society,
Visiting Professor, NYU Law School, Chair in Internet Governance and
Regulation, Oxford University
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jzittrain
Panelists:
Leslie Harris
President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Democracy and Technology
http://www.cdt.org/
Dunstan Hope
Director, Advisory Services, Business for Social Responsibility
http://www.bsr.org/
Christine Bader
Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Business and Human Rights
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Gettingstarted/UNSpecialRepresentative
Robert Mahoney
Deputy Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
http://www.cpj.org/
Chuck Cossan (TBC)
Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com
Mike Posner (TBC)
President, Human Rights First
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
Bennett Freeman (TBC)
Head of Social Research and Policy, Calvert
http://www.calvert.com/
This event is free and open to the public.
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