Net2Con: Turning Communications Technologies Into Tools for Free Speech and Free Culture

Panelists:

• Mike Linksvayer
  
• Jason Schultz
• Tara Hunt (Immoderator)

Many new ICT tools allow more people to speak and create more freely. On the other hand, repressive governments, corporations, and even individuals are trying to repress free speech and innovation through technical and legal means or old-fashioned intimidation. Now that free speech and creativity are more possible than ever before on a technical level, are we ready?

What are the key legal and political battlegrounds for free speech issues? What are the greatest risks to the free speech needed by nonprofits, NGOs, and individuals? Are the new, social media becoming available changing the very questions that society has to answer about free speech? What new technologies are being created to both facilitate the suppression of free speech and to preserve freedom of speech? If these new technologies have great democratic potential, how can we actualize that potential?

Photo of Tara Hunt.