Authority, Meet Technology: Will China's Great Firewall Hold?

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New America Foundation/Slate
1899 L St NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/authority_meet_technology

Western media companies have long been faced with ethical challenges in order to access the vast Chinese market. But after accepting Beijing's censorship and a series of attacks on its network, Google announced last week that it has had enough, and it is threatening to pull out of China.
China aspires to be considered a trustworthy global economic leader, but plenty of companies doing business in that country share Google's frustration at having to abide by different rules in the Middle Kingdom.

How will the China Internet skirmish shake out? What lessons or cautionary tales does China's experience offer repressive governments and their tech-savvy opponents in places like Iran and Cuba? What, if anything, should the Obama administration do to keep the Web free, worldwide? On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to outline the administration's plans in a major address on Internet freedom.

Featured Speakers:

Evgeny Mozorov
Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine
Yahoo! Fellow, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

Rebecca MacKinnon
Fellow, Open Society Institute
Co-Founder, Global Voices Online

Tim Wu
Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Contributing Writer, Slate

Alec Ross
Senior Advisor for Innovation
Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Moderator
James Fallows
Board Member, New America Foundation
National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly