Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 - 7:30PM The Home of Lawrence Bender
Bel Air, CA
The Internet has created an unparalleled crisis for totalitarian and repressive regimes worldwide. While China can bully American search engine companies into censoring results, the U.S. gov’t is censoring left-wing news sources from troops in Iraq. But as with all technology there is a cat-and-mouse game using new tools and techniques to censor and subvert censorship: all made by U.S. companies. What responsibility does a U.S. company have in selling software to repress foreign citizens? Will new U.S. laws regarding China kill American access to the world’s largest economy? Join us as five of the world's foremost Internet experts examine the censorship issue and how it could affect our lives.
Jonathan Zittrain is the inaugural holder of Oxford’s Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation, and a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute (https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk). His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He co-founded Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, (https://cyber.law.harvard.edu), where he is currently the Jack N. & Lillian