Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2012
Keywords
Internet Censorship, Human Rights, Surveillance, Telecommunications, International Law, Freedom Of Expression, Privacy, Telegraph, Radio Blocking
Abstract
With Internet censorship on the rise around the world, a variety of tools have proliferated to assist Internet users to circumvent such censorship. However, there are few studies examining the implications of censorship circumvention under international law, and its related politics. This paper aims to help fill some of that void, with an examination of case studies wherein global communications technologies have been disrupted or censored — telegram cable cutting and censorship, high frequency radio jamming, and direct broadcast satellite blocking — and how the world community responded to that disruption or censorship through international law and law making. In addition to illustrating some of the law and politics animating global communications censorship, I extrapolate lessons and insights for the challenges posed by Internet censorship today, such as the international legality of censorship circumvention, the nature of censorship justifications, and the potential liabilities for those engaged in censorship resistance under newly emerging doctrines of international law.
Recommended Citation
Jonathon Penney, "Communications Disruption and Censorship under International Law: History Lessons" (Paper delivered at USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, Bellevue, Washington, 6 August 2012), online: Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet < https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci12/workshop-program/presentation/penney > [perma.cc/S8ZX-DRPN].
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