John Palfrey
John Palfrey
John Palfreyis a leading American educator, scholar, and law professor. He is a notable authority on the legal aspects of emerging media, and he is an advocate for Internet freedom, including increased online transparency and accountability as well as child safety. He was selected to be the Head of School at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 2012. He has been an important figure at Harvard Law School and served as executive director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet &...
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It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.
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The bloom is off the rose for the Internet industry. There is a sense that American companies have a higher obligation than has been practiced in China in recent years.
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It's related to the problems that Yahoo and Microsoft and others are facing in China, ... but here the issue is that these technology security companies are directly profiting from the censorship regime itself.
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We chose four quite common applications to highlight, and we have found that in each instance the applications do things to violate the guidelines.
We think of it as a neighborhood watch.
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There's a fine line between legitimate advertising practices and unwanted advertising practices, and finding where that line falls is a difficult one.
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That's when you'll see the true colors of the company on this topic.
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You need to avoid any one entity having too much control over the ecosystem.
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The state's abilities in terms of content control online -- through a mixture of methods -- should not be underestimated.
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Other companies that follow similar practices beware: This is just the beginning of what we hope to identify and publicize.
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On the one hand, these are important, critical issues for the future of democracy in the world, and on the other, they're thorny and unpleasant to talk about. It's a massive brewing dispute.
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It's putting the providers of this software on notice that we're going to be paying attention.
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There's a cat-and-mouse game going on between states that seek to control the information environment and citizens who seek to speak freely online. Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.
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Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.