1. By Evgeny Morozov September 26, 2007 Picnic 2007, Amsterdam How open and free is the Internet?

2. Whad do we mean by open? 3.

accessible to all?

free from limitations?

lacking regulation?

not legally repressed?

egalitarian/mobile?

deliberation-friendly?

not yet decided?

Open Internet? 4. What do we mean by free? 5.

Not controlled?

Costing nothing/Affordable?

Voluntary?

Spontaneous?

Lawless?

Not subject to anyone's interference?

Free Internet 6. Why do governments feel (increasingly) threatened by the Internet? 7. I. Better opps for public mobilization and creating issue awareness 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. II. Better access to better datapresented in better ways 15. 16. 17. III. Facilitate collective action in real time 18. 19. 20. TeamBuy or MobShop? 21. IV. Impact on world image/national and international security 22. 23. V. Crowdsourcing documents+Streisand effect==big trouble 24. 25. 26. Streisand Effect

The " Streisand effect " is a term used to describe a phenomenon on the Internetwhere an attempt tocensoror remove (in particular, by the means ofcease-and-desist letters ) a certain piece of information (for example, aphotograph ,file , or even a wholewebsite ) backfires and the information receives extensive publicity on the Internet, often widelymirrored , or distributed onfile-sharing networksin a short period of time

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27. This includes making fun of the national leaders!!! 28. ` 29. 30. 31. 32. Can we expect (some) users to outsmart (some) governments? 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Rivercrab http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1351155008&size=om 40. 41. 42. ...does it deflect censors' attention from bigger threats to the regime? 43. Thanks! [email_address]