Access Controlled - The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
By Ronald J. Deibert, J. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan L. Zittrain. Access Controlled, 2010
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Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous "Great Firewall of China" is one of the first national Internet filtering systems. Today the new tools for Internet controls that are emerging go beyond mere denial of information. These new techniques, which aim to normalize (or even legalize) Internet control, include targeted viruses and the strategically timed deployment of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, surveillance at key points of the Internet's infrastructure, take-down notices, stringent terms of usage policies, and national information shaping strategies. Access Controlled reports on this new normative terrain. The book, a project from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the SecDev Group, offers six substantial chapters that analyze Internet control in both Western and Eastern Europe and a section of shorter regional reports and country profiles drawn from material gathered by the ONI around the world through a combination of technical interrogation and field research methods. Chapter authors: Ronald Deibert, Colin Maclay, John Palfrey, Hal Roberts, Rafal Rohozinski, Nart Villeneuve, Ethan Zuckerman Information Revolution and Global Politics series
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- Corrupting the Cyber-Commons: Social Media as a Tool of Autocratic Stability (2015, neutral): “8 Deibert et al. 2008, 2010, 2011.”
- Social Media and Corruption (2018, background): “Online censorship is also studied at Deibert et al. (2008), Deibert et al. (2010), King, Pan, and Roberts (2013, 2014), Lorentzen (2014).”
- Empowering activists or autocrats? The Internet in authoritarian regimes (2015, positive): “In fact, one of the central arguments made by Deibert et al. (2010) is that the establishment of legal restrictions on online activity in democracies paved the way for similar developments in autocracies.”
- Pulling the plug (2015, background): “The authors argue that the regimes still implementing full disruptions are also those most afraid of their control being challenged through online protest mobilization (Deibert & Rohozinski, 2010: 28–29).”