[Nets-seminars] Seminar: "Freedom vs control on the Internet"

[Saleem Bhatti]

Ian Brown

"Freedom vs control on the Internet"

Date: Tuesday 22 November
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Location: MPEB 1.20

The Internet has often been described as a lawless frontier, a space  
where censorship is routed around, copyright is meaningless, and  
communications are encrypted with ciphers immune to the world's  
largest intelligence agencies. Has this ever been true? How far will  
governments and corporations go to prevent it being true in the future?
In this seminar we'll look at who's watching who online, how  
successfully web sites can be censored, and where the copyright  
industry has got to in its attempts to forceably redesign the PC and  
the Internet. Can "technology-neutral regulation" work? Are  
traditional human rights strengthened or weakened by new technology?  
And who gets to decide what kind of society we will be living in 50  
years from now?