the embarrassing evidence that major U.S. corporations were implicated in Internet censorship practices. Once, the best and brightest of Silicon Valley were wiring the world; now, they
were profiting from their collaboration with governments who were censoring and blocking
websites. The ONI’s dogged investigations called into question the conventional wisdom
about the Internet’s open architecture.
The significance of the research that ONI has conducted goes beyond its analysis of Internet surveillance and censorship. It speaks to fundamental questions of world politics, its structure, its power relationships, and its new forms of global control and resistance. The essays in
this volume engage with all these issues. The editors of Access Denied present not only
detailed overviews of their country investigations, but several incisive chapters that probe the
legal, theoretical, and political implications of the growth of Internet-content-filtering practices
worldwide.
Access Denied tells us unmistakably that the Internet is one of the most important—and
most contested—terrains of global politics. It is being fought over by states, civil society
organizations, and corporations. The essays in this volume do a superb job of educating us
about the new battlefield of global politics.
Janice Gross Stein
Director, Munk Centre for International Politics
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Janice Stein
were profiting from their collaboration with governments who were censoring and blocking
websites. The ONI’s dogged investigations called into question the conventional wisdom
about the Internet’s open architecture.
The significance of the research that ONI has conducted goes beyond its analysis of Internet surveillance and censorship. It speaks to fundamental questions of world politics, its structure, its power relationships, and its new forms of global control and resistance. The essays in
this volume engage with all these issues. The editors of Access Denied present not only
detailed overviews of their country investigations, but several incisive chapters that probe the
legal, theoretical, and political implications of the growth of Internet-content-filtering practices
worldwide.
Access Denied tells us unmistakably that the Internet is one of the most important—and
most contested—terrains of global politics. It is being fought over by states, civil society
organizations, and corporations. The essays in this volume do a superb job of educating us
about the new battlefield of global politics.
Janice Gross Stein
Director, Munk Centre for International Politics
viii
Janice Stein