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ICANN, civil society, and free speech

Gordon Crovitz's Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the relationship between ICANN and the future of free speech quotes me a couple of times. An extended excerpt: Rebecca MacKinnon, a Web researcher writing a book about lessons from China... ...full story at RConversation

from RConversation on Mon, Jul 27 2009

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