{"64008":{"#nid":"64008","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Battling for Control of Internet in Age of Google, Baidu, and Facebook","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPanel Conversation moderated by Michael Best, \u0022Battling for Control of the Internet in the Age of Google, Baidu, and Facebook\u0022. \u0026nbsp;Afterwards, a presentation, \u0022Tor and the Censorship Arms Race: Lessons Learned\u0022 ~ Roger Dingledine Project Leader, The Tor Project.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the past decade, the Internet has seen many battles for control between authoritarian states and the dissidents who oppose them. We\u0027ve often focused our attention on state-level technical control, such as China\u0027s \u0022Great Firewall,\u0022 but recent events remind us that private companies can also restrict information flows, on their own or in response to indirect government pressure, even in \u0022free\u0022 regimes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmazon recently kicked WikiLeaks off its cloud servers. After public criticism from Sen. Lieberman, the company declared that the posting of leaked U.S. State Department cables violated the its terms of service. YouTube and Facebook needed to be asked to reinstate videos of violence that were core to protest activity in Tunisia. Google shut down operation of its search engine in China last year because it refused to continue to censor search results on behalf of the Chinese government, but Baidu, the much more popular Chinese alternative to Google, continues to censor its search results. Meanwhile copyright takedowns under US law pull results out of Google searches worldwide.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat are the proper technical, political, and social responses to the increasing role of private companies in moderating political battles for control of the Internet? What tools can individuals use to maintain free expression in the face of these control points?\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPanel Conversation moderated by Michael Best, \u0022Battling for Control of the Internet in the Age of Google, Baidu, and Facebook\u0022. \u0026nbsp;Afterwards, a presentation, \u0022Tor and the Censorship Arms Race: Lessons Learned\u0022 ~ Roger Dingledine Project Leader, The Tor Project.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Panel Conversation moderated by Michael Best."}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2011-02-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:00","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-02-24T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-02-24T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-02-24T16:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-02-24 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-02-24 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-02-24 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/flyers\/FOCI flyer Battling for Control 4 revised-3.pdf","title":"See Flyer"}],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"},{"id":"1220","name":"Digital Lounge"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11801","name":"Baidu"},{"id":"11802","name":"Battling"},{"id":"2671","name":"best"},{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"10835","name":"Facebook"},{"id":"3165","name":"google"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"907","name":"Michael Best"},{"id":"1093","name":"Mike Best"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngela Levin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECISTP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=al101\u0022\u003EContact Angela Levin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3199\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}