« U.S. hangs onto Internet management role | Main | Transorbital Lobotomy » Expression Under RepressionEthan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon set up an 'Expression under Repression' panel at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia, and their Tunisian hosts tried to shut the discussion down... but they ignored the cancellation and held the session anyway, to an SRO crowd. [Link] Rebecca rejects as absurd the idea that expression under repression isn’t relevant to ICT and development, as had been suggested by Tunisian authorities in reacting to our panel. She points to the spread of SARS in China as an example of the ill consequences of blocking communications between citizens. The blocking of sites that report on anti-corruption efforts probably costs real money, as politicans continue putting money in their pockets at the expense of the wider populus. But she points out that filtering occurs in the United States as well, through things like filters in libraries that prevent teenagers from finding out about reproductive health. jon posted this at 8:32 PM |
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