Access Controlled

by Ronald J. Deibert

Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillanceare increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democraticcountries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internetcontrols consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China'sfamous "Great Firewall of China" is one of the first national Internetfiltering systems. Today the new tools for Internet controls that are emerging gobeyond mere denial of information. These new techniques, which aim to normalize (oreven legalize) Internet control, include targeted viruses and the strategicallytimed deployment of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, surveillance atkey points of the Internet's infrastructure, take-down notices, stringent terms ofusage policies, and national information shaping strategies. Access Controlledreports on this new normative terrain. The book, a project from the OpenNetInitiative (ONI), a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto'sMunk Centre for International Studies, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet andSociety, and the SecDev Group, offers six substantial chapters that analyze Internetcontrol in both Western and Eastern Europe and a section of shorter regional reportsand country profiles drawn from material gathered by the ONI around the worldthrough a combination of technical interrogation and field researchmethods.

Genres: International Relations, History, Nonfiction, Internet

Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Ronald J. Deibert is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

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[John Palfrey]

I co-wrote / edited so should not rate!