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Free Speech and Censorship
Sherwin Siy
Staff Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center
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U.S. Tech Companies in China-Dilemmas
• Censorship (search results, blog takedowns)
• Disclosing Personal Information
• Providing Equipment Used in Censorship
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Censorship
• Search Results--Yahoo, Google remove certain links
• Blogs--Microsoft removes blogs posting criticism
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Disclosing Personal Information
• Yahoo Disclosures linked email accounts and online postings with:– Shi Tao: 10 years for reporting “state
secrets”– Li Zhi:8 years for “inciting subversion”– Jiang Lijun: 4 years for “subversion”
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Providing Equipment Used in Censorship
• Cisco– Providing Chinese government with
network infrastructure that can be used for blocking/filtering
– Marketing to, training police forces in their use
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Company Responses
• Bringing the Internet to China
• The Internet is a tool against repression
• Must obey local laws and customs
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Congressional Response
• Global Online Freedom Act– H.R. 4780– Introduced Feb. 16, 2004– Introduced by Chris Smith (R-NJ)
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Components of GOFA
• Reports on Internet freedom
• Creates Office of Global Internet Freedom
• Prohibits altering search results at behest of “Internet-restricting country”
• Must report filter requests
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Components of GOFA (cont’d)
• U.S.-supported content can’t be blocked• Must report blocked info and takedown
requests.• Cannot turn over personally identifying
information to a restrictive country unless OK’d by DOJ
• Export Controls on censorship equipment
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Issues with GOFA
• Restrictive / non-restrictive list– Should it matter what country does the
filtering, blocking, or takedown request?
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Issues with GOFA
• Transparency:– Both transparency provisions require
reporting of filtering and takedowns to OGIF, not to users
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Issues with GOFA
• Special protections for US content– Why privilege US gov’t speech?
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Issues with GOFA
• Integrity of User Information– Department of Justice has final word on
turning over information– Transparency issues to begin with– Again, is the distinction necessary?
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Principles
• Transparency– For users, not just government. If must remove results, say
how many, under what authority, according to what complaint.
• Notice of Requests– Users should know what information kept, what requested,
have a chance to object
• Abide by International Law– Interpret and argue under local laws
• Limitation– If you can’t protect it, don’t collect it
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Principles Should be Universally Applied
• Transparency: DMCA, hate speech filtering
• Notice of requests: John Doe suits
• Data limitation: DoJ/ Google requests
• Don’t just roll over: see above
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What to Do?
• Legislation is a blunt instrument• Pressure from companies can make a
difference• Company incentives to acquiesce to China
demands--profit• Pressures against censorship that affect
bottom line might alter incentive structure• Fighting censorship starts at home
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Issues to Watch
• Data retention-in EU, US• Regulation of disfavored content and
disfavored means-pornography, file sharing
• Thin end of the wedge (child pornography campaign)
• Mission creep