Hello everyone!
Izzy, Zac, Finley and I will be presenting on the regulation/censorship of the internet. In particular, we will be looking at how three different countries – Australia, the UK and Canada – regulate online content, and in some instances how they control what content can be uploaded, distributed and viewed by the public. As some background reading, the article ‘Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral’ looks at how governments have used their power to regulate the internet and media to control the dissemination of information (https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-media/freedom-media-2019). Rebecca MacKinnon also did a really interesting Ted Talk on ‘Taking Back the Internet’ (https://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_mackinnon_let_s_take_back_the_internet?language=en). Thanks, and see you all tomorrow!