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The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age

For 2009 I am on leave from the University of Hong Kong. The Open Society Institute has generously granted me a fellowship to spend the year working on a book. The tentative title is "Internet Freedom and Control: Lessons from... ...full story at RConversation

from RConversation on Wed, Jan 28 2009

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