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By Samuel S. Visner
01 Sep 2009 |
World Politics Review
Is modern information technology changing what we can expect of actors in the
international political system? Is it creating new actors, and presenting new issues of policy and security? Specific answers have yet to fully emerge. But we have a responsibility to define
national and international security interests in cyberspace and to
develop the tools to pursue them.
By Milton Mueller
01 Sep 2009 |
World Politics Review
Questions over Internet content regulation confront free societies with an unpalatable dilemma: to
either systematically re-border Internet communications; or to develop a global
system of content regulation. The problem remains intractable until one questions the inevitability of state sovereignty over
Internet-based expression.
By Cyrus Farivar
01 Sep 2009 |
World Politics Review
In the weeks following the Iranian election, Internet users
around the world found themselves glued to their computers, while Iranians inside Iran suddenly found themselves transformed into
accidental citizen journalists, passing on information through Twitter,
Facebook and other social networking Web sites. This explosion
of online activity could not have happened were it not for Iranians' long experience with
government constraints on technology.
