Consent of the Networked The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

Name: Consent of the Networked The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
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ISBN: 9780465063758

ISBN-10: 0465063756

ISBN-13: 9780465063758

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rebecca MacKinnon

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The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web’s empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same digital technologies we have come to depend upon. InConsent of the Networked, journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it is time to fight for our rights before they are sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. Every day, the corporate sovereigns of cyberspace (Google and Facebook, among others) make decisions that affect our physical freedombut without our consent. Yet the traditional solution to…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Foreword to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Introduction: After the Revolution



Disruptions



Consent and Sovereignty


Corporate Superpowers


Legitimacy



Rise of the Digital Commons


The Technical Commons


Activism


Balance of Power



Control 2.0



Networked Authoritarianism


How China's Censorship Works


Authoritarian Deliberation


Western Fantasies Versus Reality



Variants and Permutations


"Constitutional" Technology


Corporate Collaboration


Divide and Conquer


Digital Bonapartism



Democracy's Challenges



Eroding Accountability


Surveillance


WikiLeaks and the Fate of Controversial Speech



Democratic Censorship


Intentions Versus Consequences


Saving the Children



Copywars


Shunning Due Process


Aiding Authoritarianism


Lobbynomics



Sovereigns of Cyberspace



Corporate Censorship


Net Neutrality


Mobile Complications


Big Brother Apple



Do No Evil


Chinese Lessons


Flickr Fail


Buzz Bust


Privacy and Facebook



Facebookistan and Googledom


Double Edge


Inside the Leviathan


Google Governance


Implications



What is to Be Done?



Trust, but Verify


The Regulation Problem


Shared Value


The Global Network Initiative


Lessons from Other Industries



In Search of "Internet Freedom" Policy


Washington Squabbles


Goals and Methods


Democratic Discord


Civil Society Pushes Back



Global Internet Governance


The United Nations Problem


ICANN-Can You?



Building a Netizen-Centric Internet


Strengthening the Netizen Commons


Expanding the Technical Commons


Utopianism Versus Reality


Getting Political


Corporate Transparency and Netizen Engagement


Personal Responsibility


Afterword to the Paperback Edition


Notes


Index