This House would use foreign aid funds to research and distribute software...
Free Speech Debate team blog: Enemies of the InternetFree speech is a fundamental human right; everyone, everywhere has an inalienable right to give their opinions.[1] Today the internet is the...
View ArticleThis House would punish users of extremist websites
The case: Punishing users of extremist websitesOn 15th March 2012, Mohammed Merah killed two soldiers of the French army and left a third in a coma. A few days later, on 19th March, Merah attacked a...
View ArticleThis House believes that free speech in the UK should include social media
Free Speech Debate blog: Even malicious tweets need protectionAnother overly broad and misguided British law has reared its ugly head in the digital age to stifle free speech.read more
View ArticleShould we fear the power of government over the Internet?
What is internet governance?Curator: Ben Wagnerread more
View ArticleShould a new global body, the United Nations Committee for Internet Related...
Currently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) based in California administers the technical and policy aspects of the core structure of the internet meaning it coordinates...
View ArticleThis House would block access to websites that deny the Holocaust
The Holocaust was one of the most terrible acts of mass slaughter the world has ever known. Historians around the world have reached a consensus as to what, broadly speaking, took place.Curator: Ben...
View ArticleThis House would offer amnesty to bloggers currently prosecuted by their...
Repressive governments, here defined as governments that are anti-democratic, that do not afford general civil rights to their citizens, and that do not have a robust respect for the rule of law, have...
View ArticleThis House would ban the sale of surveillance technology to non-democratic...
The sophistication of modern surveillance technology has increased by leaps and bounds in the 21st century. Governments have unprecedented power to watch their citizens, to see almost every aspect of...
View ArticleThis House would allow internet service providers to block access to...
The internet has become a major centre of extremist activity, one so important that Osama bin Ladin back in 2002 said that 90% of all jihadist activity will soon be through the media, which in turn is...
View ArticleThis House would incentivise western companies to build software that...
The internet and social networks have come to be the core weapon in the arsenal of dissidents when they engage in uprising against oppressive or illiberal regimes. By use of social networks and other...
View ArticleBan online gambling (Junior)
Gambling is risking money on a chance outcome. If you are lucky you get back more money than you wagered. If you are unlucky you lose your stake. There are many different forms of gambling. Some are...
View ArticleActively circumventing Internet censorship is a legitimate foreign policy tool
Censorship and internet filtering has been increasing over the last few years. While authoritarian regimes feel that they need to censor the internet in order to stifle political dissent and keep...
View ArticleThis House believes that Western democracies should openly try to circumvent...
Internet censorship has been growing precipitously in countries around the world. Freedom House finds that 20 of 47 countries examined have increased their restrictions on internet freedom in 2011 and...
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