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February 13, 2012
Article by Irene Poetranto, U of T News
In our quest to shape and regulate cyberspace, we risk subverting the global commons of information we have created, and by extension, the prospects and potential for global democracy, said University of Toronto professor Ron Deibert in his keynote speech to the 2012 iConference, hosted by the Faculty of Information.
“Fear is the dominant driving force for a wide range of movements to control cyberspace,” said Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies. “Countering terrorism online, for instance, serves as a means for silencing legitimate political opposition, while filtering inappropriate content is also the basis for removing human rights websites.”