Talk for launch of the W3C UK & Ireland Office, Keble College, Oxford, 18 April 2011, focusing on the ecology of policy choices shaping freedom of expression in the digital age.

1. Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet William H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law,andVictoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Presentation for the Launch of the W3C UK & Ireland Office, Keble College, 18 April 2011.

3. Cascading Issues over Freedom of Expression

4. The Internet Reconfigures Access in Ways that Can Empower Networked Individuals

5. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression

6. Digital Rights Access – Freedom of Connection Freedom of Expression Censorship Equality (media literacy) Freedom of Information Privacy & Data Protection

7. Worldwide Diffusion of the Internet

9. No single country

10. Variety of Objectives:

11. Political

12. Moral

14. IPR: Patents

15. Competition Policy

16. Technology-led Industrial Strategies

19. Brazilian Copyright Reform BillCopyright Mot

21. Decency: Pornography

22. Libel: Defamation

23. Prevention of Hate Speech

24. Consumer Protection: FraudCopyright Mugley

26. Domain Names and Numbers

27. Net Neutrality

28. Licensing, Regulation of Service Providers: Intermediaries

31. Security against Malware

32. Counter-RadicalisationNational Security Blackberry Use WikiLeaks: Confidentiality-Security

33. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression

35. Worldwide Diffusion and Expanding Access in More Languages & Scripts enabling Networked Individuals to Find, Share and Create Content

36. Major Issues of Human Rights are Increasingly Being Centered on the Internet and Web

38. Continuing Global and Local Digital Divides in Access and the Production of Content

39. Global Increase in Content Filtering and Censorship

40. Freedom Shaped by Choices in the Wider Ecology of Actors, Objectives and Policies

42. Renew Research on Freedom of Expression Monitor World Wide Internet Filtering in a more Systematic and Sustained Manner Track an Expanded Range of Policies and Regulatory Issues in this Ecology Critically Explore Relationships between Freedom of Expression and other Core Values and Rights Study Impacts on the Ground, including Public Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior Understand Assaults on Freedom of Expression as efforts to protect other Values and Interests

43. William H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law,andVictoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Opinionsexpressedarethose of theauthors and do notnecessarilyreflecttheviews of UNESCO orits Division forFreedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace. Presentation for the Launch of the W3C UK & Ireland Office, Keble College, 18 April 2011.