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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

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Ronald J. Deibert, Palfrey, John, Rohozinski, Rafal, Zittrain, Jonathan L.·2010·The MIT Press eBooks
DOI 10.7551/mitpress/8551.001.0001
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Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which surveillance and censorship are routine. Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous “Great Firewall of China” is one of the first national Internet filtering systems. Today the new tools for Internet controls that are emerging go beyond mere denial of information. These new techniques, which aim to normalize (or even legalize) Internet control, include targeted viruses and the strategically timed deployment of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, surveillance at key points of the Internet's infrastructure, take-down notices, stringent terms of usage policies, and national information shaping strategies. Access Controlled reports on this new normative terrain. The book, a project from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the SecDev Group, offers six substantial chapters that analyze Internet control in both Western and Eastern Europe and a section of shorter regional reports and country profiles drawn from material gathered by the ONI around the world through a combination of technical interrogation and field research methods.

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  • In cases where domestic companies own servers, governments often have legal and illegal means to compel providers to comply with governmental control practices.

    “In cases where domestic companies own those servers, governments often have legal and illegal means to compel providers to comply with governmental control practices (Deibert & Rohozinski, 2010).”

    From How Dictators Control the Internet: A Review Essay (2020) · cites this paper as Deibert & Rohozinski, 2010

  • Even when the infrastructure is in place, there are means to temporarily disable the entire infrastructure.

    “However, even when the infrastructure is in place, there are other means to temporarily disable the entire infrastructure (Deibert & Rohozinski, 2010).”

    From How Dictators Control the Internet: A Review Essay (2020) · cites this paper as Deibert & Rohozinski, 2010

  • In the case of political events potentially threatening to a regime, 'just-in-time' shutdowns allow governments to temporarily disconnect parts of or the whole population.

    “This means that in the case of political events that are potentially threatening to a regime, 'just-in-time' shutdowns allow governments to temporarily disconnect parts of or the whole population (Dainotti etal., 2014; Deibert etal., 2010; Freyburg & Garbe, 2018; Gohdes, 2015).”

    From How Dictators Control the Internet: A Review Essay (2020) · cites this paper as Deibert et al., 2010

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Authors
Deibert, R. J., Palfrey, J., Rohozinski, R., & Zittrain, J. L.
Venue
The MIT Press eBooks
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2010-04-02
DOI
10.7551/mitpress/8551.001.0001
OpenAlex
W4254715066
Cited by
298
References
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Citations by year
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28.28
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
The MIT Press eBooks (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
  • Social Sciences › Law › Freedom of Expression and Defamation
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Keywords
internet control, internet censorship, online surveillance, internet filtering, Great Firewall of China, DDoS attacks, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, democratic state, authoritarian state

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