Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom – Rebecca MacKinnon at Polis LSE

Rebecca MacKinnon

With all the debate around SOPA and regulating the Internet it’s a great time to have a leading expert and activist come speak at Polis. Rebecca MacKinnnon  is a journalist, co-founder of Global Voices, and an Open Internet campaigner with a new book setting out the agenda for Internet Freedom.

She is speaking at Polis at 1pm on February 28th in Clement House Room 302 (Third Floor), Clement House, 99 Aldwych – click here for directions.

Rebecca is on Twitter as @RMack

The Hashtag for this event is: #PolisMackinnon

Email us for details: polis@lse.ac.uk

Here’s the blurb for the book:

As corporations and countries square off for control of the Internet, the likely losers are us – unless we act to protect our freedoms. Facebook, Flickr, Research in Motion, Yahoo, Ericsson and Google: what do they have in common? They are technology companies that, while drawing the rhetoric of cyberutopianism, are nonetheless willing – even keen – to undermine the freedom of their users whenever it suits them. Many nations are no better: China, Russia, Iran and even the US spy on their citizens, crush free expression, and otherwise import all of government’s worst habits into the digital frontier. In “Consent of the Networked”, Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues passionately and convincingly that it is time for us to claim respect and protection for our rights and freedoms before they are sold, legislated, programmed and engineered away. As the Arab Spring has shown, it is possible to demand what’s ours. But we must start now – time is running out.

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