Consent of the networked : the world-wide struggle for Internet freedom

Consent of the networked : the world-wide struggle for Internet freedom / Rebecca MacKinnon.

Google has a history of censoring at the behest of Communist China. Research in Motion happily opens up the BlackBerry to such stalwarts of liberty as Saudi Arabia. Yahoo has betrayed the email accounts of dissidents to the PRC. Facebook's obsession with personal transparency has revealed the i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacKinnon, Rebecca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, ©2012.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Internet > Political aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Internet > Censorship.
Freedom of information.
World politics > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Freedom of information
Internet > Censorship
Internet > Political aspects
Internet > Social aspects
World politics
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Table of Contents:
  • After the revolution
  • Disruptions. Consent and sovereignty ; Rise of the digital commons
  • Control 2.0. Networked authoritarianism ; Variants and permutations
  • Democracy's challenges. Eroding accountability ; Democratic censorship ; Copywars
  • Sovereigns of cyberspace. Corporate censorship ; Do no evil ; Facebookistan and Googledom
  • What is to be done? Trust, but verify ; In search of "Internet freedom" policy ; Global Internet governance ; Building a netizen-centric Internet.

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