MIT 6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier

Preparation for week of class on November 29
Global internet censorship

Reading

This week's class will look at internet impact several countries and government rections like blocking and filtering. For preparation, please read:

• Mehdi Yahyanejad (2010), "The effectiveness of Internet for informing and mobilizing in the events after the Iranian presidential elections",
• Read the Supreme Court ruling in Rebecca MacKinnon (Oct. 2010), "Networked Authoritarianism in China and Beyond: Implications for global Internet freedom"
• Ronald Diebert (2010), "Beyond National-level Filtering: International Mechanisms and Dynamics of Cyberspace Controls". This paper is not being distributed separately.
• alkasir for Mapping and Curcumventing Cyber-Censorship: Map. Give it time to generate the map and to laod.