Promoting Global Internet Freedom

by Weber, Samantha R.

• ISBN13: 9781617288272
• ISBN10: 1617288276
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

Modern means of communications, led by the Internet, provide a relatively inexpensive, open, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, pictures, and text around the world. In a political and human rights context, in closed societies when the more established, formal news media is denied access to or does not report on specified news events, the Internet has become an alternative source of media, and sometimes a means to organise politically. The openness and the freedom of expression allowed through blogs, social networks, video sharing sites, and other tools of today's communications technology has proven to be an unprecedented and often disruptive force in some closed societies. This book provides information regarding the role of U.S. and other foreign companies in facilitating Internet censorship by repressive regimes overseas.

Table of Contents

Preface

U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, & Technology

Opening Statement of Senator Dick Durbin, Chairman, before the Subcommittee on Human Rights & the Law, Hearing on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility & the Rule of Law"

Statement of Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., before the Subcommittee on Human Rights & the Law, Hearing on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility & the Rule of Law"

Testimony of Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel, Google, Inc., before the Subcommittee on Human Rights & the Law, Hearing on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility & the Rule of Law"

Opening Statement of Michael Samway, Vice-President & Deputy General Counsel for Yahoo! Inc., before the Subcommittee on Human Rights & the Law, Hearing on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility & the Rule of Law"

Written Testimony of Arvind Ganesan, Director, Business & Human Rights Program, Human Rights Watch, before the Subcommittee on Human Rights & the Law, Hearing on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility & the Rule of Law"

Testimony of Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President Legal Services, General Counsel & Secretary, Cisco Systems, Inc., before the Subcommittee on Human Rights & the Law, Hearing on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility & the Rule of Law"

Testimony of Shiyu Zhou, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Global Internet Freedom Consortium, before the Subcommittee on Human Rights & the Law, Hearing on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility & the Rule of Law"

Testimony of Alan Davidson, Director of Public Policy, Google Inc., before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Hearing on "Google & Internet Control in China: A Nexus between Human Rights & Trade?"

Statement of Christine N. Jones, Executive Vice-President, General Counsel, & Corporate Secretary, The Go Daddy Group, Inc., before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Hearing on "Google & Internet Control in China: A Nexus between Human Rights & Trade?"

Testimony of Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights in China, before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Hearing on "Google & Internet Control in China: A Nexus between Human Rights & Trade?"

Statement of Ed Black, President & CEO, Computer & Communications Industry Association, before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Hearing on "Google & Internet Control in China: A Nexus between Human Rights & Trade?"

Testimony of Ambassador Mark Palmer, before the Congressional -Executive Commission on China, Hearing on "Google & Internet Control in China: A Nexus between Human Rights & Trade?"

Testimony of Rebecca MacKinnon, Visiting Fellow, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Hearing on "Google & Internet Control in China: A Nexus between Human Rights & Trade?"

Index

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