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Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens – most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion. Access Denied documents and analyses Internet filtering practices in more than three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend.
Drawing on a just-completed survey of global Internet filtering undertaken by the OpenNet Initiative (a collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, and the University of Cambridge) and relying on work by regional experts and an extensive network of researchers, Access Denied examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives.
Reports on Internet content regulation in forty different countries are also included, with each country summary outlining the types of content blocked by category and documenting key findings.
Robert Diebert is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
John Palfrey is Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Rafal Rohozinski is the former Director of the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University (Cambridge Security Programme). He is a Principal with the SecDev Group.
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
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