Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Future Internet in the Larger Legal-Regulatory Ecology. SESERV [Dutton]

1. Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Future Internet in the Larger Legal-Regulatory Ecology William H. Dutton Oxford Internet Institute (OII) University of Oxford Presentation for the SESERV and Knetworks Seminar and Workshop, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 28 June 2011.

3. More Advocacy v Research

4. Politically Sensitive (e.g., the McBride Commission established in 1977)

6. The Internet Reconfigures Access in Ways that Can Empower Networked Individuals and Frighten Governments

7. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression

9. No single country

10. Variety of Objectives:

11. Political

12. Moral

13. CommercialBUT: Potential to Decentralize, e.g., Home Hubs

14. Percentage of Internet Users Across Regions of the World

15. Regions as Percentage of the Worldwide Population of Users

16. Digital Rights Access – Freedom of Connection Freedom of Expression Censorship Equality (media literacy) Freedom of Information Privacy & Data Protection

18. Online Global Survey

19. Completed by 5,400 Adult Internet Users

20. Conducted from Oct-Nov 2010

21. 13 countries: Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom*Dutta, S., Dutton, W. H. and Law, G. (2011), The New Internet World: A Global Perspective on Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Trust and Security Online. New York: The World Economic Forum, April. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1810005

25. Emerging Pattern of Findings Supporting Conception of a ‘New Internet World’

27. Decency: Pornography

28. Libel: Defamation

29. Prevention of Hate Speech

30. Consumer Protection: Fraud

31. …Copyright Mugley

33. ICT for Development (ICT4D)

34. Competition Policy

35. IPR: Copyright

37. Domain Names and Numbers

38. Net Neutrality

39. Licensing, Regulation of Service Providers: Intermediaries

42. Security against Malware

43. Counter-RadicalisationNational Security Blackberry Use WikiLeaks: Confidentiality-Security

44. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression

46. Worldwide Diffusion and Support for Expression in a New Internet World

47. Major Issues of Human Rights are Increasingly Being Centered on the Internet and Web

49. Continuing Global and Local Digital Divides in Access and the Production of Content

50. Global Increase in Content Filtering and Censorship

51. Freedom Shaped by Choices in the Wider Ecology of Actors, Objectives and Policies