Limits to Internet Freedoms: Being Heard in an Increasingly Authoritarian World
The Internet is a critical tool for communication and knowledge acquisition in societies across the globe. Unfortunately, its use has become a battlefield for governments, corporations, and individuals to censor speech and access to information. In this paper, we present research into the use of soc...
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| description | The Internet is a critical tool for communication and knowledge acquisition in societies across the globe. Unfortunately, its use has become a battlefield for governments, corporations, and individuals to censor speech and access to information. In this paper, we present research into the use of social media for free speech in Turkey, Mongolia, and Zambia as a basis for discussing the limits of Internet freedoms. We discuss the actors, adversaries, social and technological limits, as well as limitations of existing tools for the free exchange of ideas on-line. We conclude with a discussion of how design and development choices for technology can a.ect marginalized communities, as well as the ethical and technical considerations for developing tools and applications that support Internet freedoms. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1289682024-02-21T21:10:56Z Limits to Internet Freedoms: Being Heard in an Increasingly Authoritarian World Nekrasov, Michael Parks, Lisa Belding, Elizabeth Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing The Internet is a critical tool for communication and knowledge acquisition in societies across the globe. Unfortunately, its use has become a battlefield for governments, corporations, and individuals to censor speech and access to information. In this paper, we present research into the use of social media for free speech in Turkey, Mongolia, and Zambia as a basis for discussing the limits of Internet freedoms. We discuss the actors, adversaries, social and technological limits, as well as limitations of existing tools for the free exchange of ideas on-line. We conclude with a discussion of how design and development choices for technology can a.ect marginalized communities, as well as the ethical and technical considerations for developing tools and applications that support Internet freedoms. 2021-01-05T23:01:22Z 2021-01-05T23:01:22Z 2017-06 2019-10-15T18:27:15Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450349505 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128968 Nekrasov, Michael et al. "Limits to Internet Freedoms: Being Heard in an Increasingly Authoritarian World." Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Computing Within Limits, Santa Barbara, California, Association for Computing Machinery, June 2017. © 2017 ACM en http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3080556.3080564 Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Computing Within Limits Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Other repository |
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