Cyberspace the liberator is now a tyrant’s tool | Bryan Appleyard - Times Online
Cyberspace was born free, but everywhere it is in chains. Once a promised land inhabited by visionaries, libertarians and freedom fighters, it has become a war zone. “The Harry Potter age of the internet,” says Professor Ron Deibert, “is over.”I have been reading lately about Deibert and the Citizen lab. They are doing interesting work (citizenlab.org)
Deibert is director of the Citizen Lab at Toronto University, which monitors state and corporate control of cyberspace. In a recent Citizen Lab survey of 69 countries, it learnt that 40 had internet restrictions.
