{"id":401,"date":"2014-02-24T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/announcements\/censorship-2020\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T22:48:38","slug":"censorship-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/2025-02-19_cct\/news-story\/censorship-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"CENSORSHIP 2020:  The Future of Free Speech Online Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Chapter of the Internet Society,<br \/>\n\tin conjunction with the U.S. Department of State,<br \/>\n\tinvite you to an informal discussion on<\/p>\n<p>\tCENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online<\/p>\n<p>\tMonday, June 25, 2012<br \/>\n\t5:00-5:30 PM Networking<br \/>\n\t5:30-7:00 PM Discussion<\/p>\n<p>\tHosted by the Communication, Culture and Technology Program of Georgetown University<br \/>\n\t2nd Floor, Car Barn, 3520 Prospect St., N.W. , Washington , DC (enter from Prospect St.)<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Arab Spring demonstrated how Internet technologies such as Twitter, blogs, and Facebook could be used to mobilize protesters, publicize corruption and human rights violations, and connect activists and emigres. But in Iran , Syria , and elsewhere, we have seen repressive governments use the Internet to identify and track dissidents, to spread disinformation, and defame political opponents. Will the technologies of anonymization win out over new digital monitoring tools? Will new wireless data technologies foster democracy&#8211;or lead to more effective tracking and surveillance? Join us for an informal discussion with six people fighting for free speech on the Internet in their country&#8211;and around the world:<\/p>\n<p>\tDlshad Othman (Syria), an activist and IT engineer providing Syrians with digital security tools<\/p>\n<p>\tPranesh Prakash (India), a blogger and cyberlaw expert who is promoting a free Internet and online freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>\tKoundjoro Gabriel Kambou (Burkina Faso), a journalist at <a href=\"http:\/\/lefaso.net\/\">Lefaso.net<\/a>, is promoting human rights, democracy particularly among young people.<\/p>\n<p>\tSopheap Chak (Cambodia), the Deputy Director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and one of Cambodia &#x2019;s leading bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>\tAndres Azpurua (Venezuela) has trained 300 youth on using Web 2.0 tools to publicize human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>\tEmin Milli (Azerbaijan), a writer who is using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to spread information about human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>\tModerator: Ambassador (ret.) Richard Kauzarlich, Deputy Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), George Mason University, http:\/\/traccc.gmu.edu\/<\/p>\n<p>\tFor more details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/censorship2020.eventbrite.com\/\">censorship2020.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tStreet parking available is on Prospect Street and other streets north of the Car Barn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC Chapter of the Internet Society, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State, invite you to an informal discussion on CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online Monday, June 25, 2012 5:00-5:30 PM Networking 5:30-7:00 PM Discussion Hosted by the Communication, Culture and Technology Program of Georgetown University 2nd Floor, Car Barn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gu_featured_image_display":true,"footnotes":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online Panel - Master&#039;s in Communication, Culture &amp; 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