Marvin and Sascha Meinrath, Director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, published an article for the Emory International Law Review’s Symposium on “International Law and the Internet: Adapting Legal Framework In Response To Online Warfare and Revolutions Fueled By Social Media.” Their piece examines the recent conflicts over Internet freedom and how new technologies can foster a more open society, if we allow them to do so.
From the piece:
Which brings us to another conundrum in the battle between the Internet Freedom Fighters and the Cold Warriors—how do we empower free society while creating technological mechanisms to police malfeasance? The same “good” surveillance technologies are used regularly for such evil purposes, yet have been so impotent in actually stopping piracy in the first place.
Like any powerful tool, technology offers both tremendous boons for adept users and dramatic new pitfalls for an unsuspecting public. But the battles over SOPA and PIPA give us hope.
You can read their article here.
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