Zócalo Public Square Presents "Is Internet Freedom at Risk?"

This event is presented by: ASU Art Museum
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
ASU Art Museum
Location: ASU Art Museum
Campus: Tempe           
Cost: Free

In Italy, a judge handed down criminal sentences to four Google executives who'd failed to quickly remove a YouTube video of school bullying. India requires Internet companies to help maintain "public order, decency, or morality." In China, Yahoo supplied the government with information that helped to convict political dissidents. All over the world, Facebook abruptly changed certain privacy settings to public ones. 
More and more, what we do online is being watched. What we can say is being constrained. And governments and corporations are exerting increasing control over our virtual world. Are we allowing online freedom to slip away? Journalist and Tempe native Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, visits the ASU Art Museum to explore this global phenomenon and to ask how we can preserve liberties that are in more danger than we think.
We hope you'll join us for the talk and for drinks at the reception afterward. The event is free and open to the public. Reservations for Is Internet Freedom at Risk? are recommended and can be made here. 
Copies of MacKinnon's book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom will be available in the ASU Art Museum gift store.

For more information
E-mail: deborah.susser@asu.edu
Website: Zócalo Public Square
Phone: 480.965.0014

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