Here’s a sophisticated pro-China argument on the fallout from the Google affair, specifically on the internet freedom versus internet sovereignty issue. There’s a good point within it: The infrastructure for the Internet was built in a way which did not...

The splendiferous Doc Searls has an alarming article about an outfit called the Global Internet Freedom Consortium. Global Internet Freedom Consortium sell tools to break the Great Internet Wall of China. Cool. They also sell the private details of their clients who have purchased these tools to 'vetted' companies for 'personalised advertising'. Extremely un-cool... catastrophi...

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has welcomed a decision by the European Parliament to support internet freedom. Ms Evans voted in favour of the proposals which state that a user's access to the internet cannot be restricted without a prior legal ruling. ... full story

Plans to force internet providers to block sites carrying pirated music and films 'threaten freedom of speech and the open internet', says internet and telecom companies

Some of the “kill switch” stuff sounds a bit overwrought, but it looks a like the Chinese view of the internet is on the point of prevailing. This from Rebecca MacKinnon's commentary on China's recent White Paper on internet governance:...

In a close vote in the conference hall, Lib Dem conference delegates decided to debate “Freedom, Creativity and the Internet” as the single emergency motion to be considered tomorrow. The alternative NHS motion was narrowly edged out. Promoters of the Freedom, Creativity and the Internet motion hope that it will send a clear signal of the Lib

NHS Blog Doctor: £5 to save freedom of speech on the internet.I am not sure that paying a blogger's legal costs to defend a libel claim is quite going to "save freedom of speech on the internet," but secure in...

These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...

Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident, points out the value of the internet to him . It does seem that the internet can be a key tool for dissidents in authoritarian countries like China. It enables far greater horizontal communication between people than would otherwise be possible. However, although technology can free us, it also can enable more monitoring and snooping of people. Computer technology ...

I have a confession to make. I don't know a great deal about electronic issues, especially how they relate to the law. Ask me about the electoral system used for the London Assembly and I could talk for ages, ask me about issues of electronic freedom, internet piracy, and such things, and I would struggle. But there is somewhere on the internet that I trust to provide me with the latest elect...