Freedom on the ‘Net: A Global Assessment
By Daniel Calingaert and Sarah Cook
As access to online technologies has grown exponentially in recent years, the Internet has increased opportunities to enrich public discourse, expose abuses of power, and facilitate citizen activism. It has provided greater space for free expression in both democratic settings and countries where traditional broadcast and print media are restricted. [...]
Don’t Blame the Messenger
By Cynthia Wong
Intermediary liability and protecting Internet platforms
When an Italian court held Google liable for a video uploaded by a third party to one of the Internet giant’s Web sites, it offered a stunning example of intermediary liability. Google, the platform host, was the intermediary between the content creator who made the video clip and [...]
Google Video Slapped with Privacy Violation in Italy
In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy, recorded a video showing them illegally bullying an autistic schoolmate. They uploaded it to Google’s video-sharing site, and Google took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian local police. But the video had been posted for nearly two months by that time, [...]
Industry Takes a Stand for Online Freedom
In response to government crackdowns on citizens’ Internet freedom, a diverse group of institutions including human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), investors, journalism schools and a handful of major technology corporations in 2008 founded the Global Network Initiative (GNI). Drawing on internationally recognized human rights laws and standards, GNI provides guidance on how companies can respond [...]
Unrestricted, Secure Internet Access Critical, United States Says
The Obama administration is continuing its efforts to promote universal and uncensored access to the Internet around the world, viewing it as a critical element to modern economies and societies, the State Department’s Alec Ross said January 14.
Ross, who serves as senior adviser for innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, told reporters in [...]
Attacking Journalists Hurts All Society, Democracy Advocates Say
Media Rights Activists Comment on World Press Freedom Day
If journalists are persecuted, imprisoned or killed, society as a whole is the victim, say media and democracy advocates speaking in advance of World Press Freedom Day.
The United Nations highlighted the importance of a free media by establishing World Press Freedom Day in 1993, setting [...]
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