Posted on September 9th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
I have a new essay up on SSRN, titled Censorship v3.1. It’s under consideration by the peer-reviewed journal IEEE Internet Computing. Here’s the abstract: Internet censorship has evolved. In Version 1.0, censorship was impossible; in Version 2.0, it was a characteristic of repressive regimes; and in Version 3.0, it spread to democracies who desired to [...]
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Posted on August 14th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Soon, major ISPs will be rolling out a “copyright education” program intended to deter infringement. The program, colloquially called “six strikes,” was negotiated between ISPs and the content industries – most notably the RIAA and MPAA. In addition, however, the Obama administration was heavily involved in the negotiations – primarily, it appears, on the side [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
I’ve posted a new essay, titled Chutzpah, to SSRN. It’s forthcoming in the peer-reviewed Journal of National Security Law and Policy. Here’s the abstract: President Barack Obama campaigned on a platform of governmental transparency. This Essay examines how his administration has implemented this commitment in two policy areas: Internet communication, and intellectual property. It finds [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Adam Dachis has an interesting and worrisome post up at Lifehacker. (Disclosure: he kindly asked me for input into the post.) It thinks about a post-CISPA world, where privacy exists only at the behest of companies who hold our information. CISPA would immunize these firms for sharing information with the federal government, so long as [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The first rule of censorship conferences is… do not talk about censorship conferences. Ignoring that, I encourage you to tune in to Yale’s Global Censorship Conference – it is an awesome group of speakers and topics. You can catch the livestream here. For those of you willing to get up on Sunday morning, you can [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2012 by William McGeveran
The Federal Trade Commission today released its “final report” on consumer data privacy, updating a preliminary staff report from 2010. (Here’s a PDF of all 112 pages). The word “final” should be taken with several metric tons of salt, however — there is nothing final about this report, by its own admission. The report does [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Pakistan, which has long censored the Internet, has decided to upgrade its cybersieves. And, like all good bureaucracies, the government has put the initiative out for bid. According to the New York Times, Pakistan wants to spend $10 million on a system that can block up to 50 million URLs concurrently, with minimal effect on [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
The RIAA’s Cary Sherman had a screed about the Stop Online Piracy and PROTECT IP Acts in the New York Times recently. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick brilliantly gutted it, and I’m not going to pile on – a tour de force requires no augmentation. What I want to suggest is that the recording industry – or, [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
In the spirit of the excellent colloquy here about Marvin’s thinking on First Amendment architectures, I bring up this news item: Arizona State University blocked both Web access to, and e-mail from, the change.org Web site. ASU students had begun a petition demanding that the university reduce tuition. The university essentially made three claims as [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2012 by Derek Bambauer
Guest post by Jane Yakowitz Now that the European Union’s member states are flailing around attempting to implement their miserable cookie directive, the European Commission has decided it’s a good time to retard the Internet some more. Today the European Commission will release an already-leaked new version of the Data Protection Directive which firmly establishes [...]
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