This resource encompasses the presentation and information given at the recent launch of the new UNESCO publication, ‘Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet’.
Professor William Dutton, the leading author of the book and Director of Oxford Internet Institute, gave a presentation during the launch of this new publication, which was attended by Permanent Delegates to UNESCO and representatives of civil society.
Professor Dutton highlighted in his presentation that this UNESCO-commissioned research provides a new perspective on the social and political dynamics behind the threats to expression. The book shows that there is a rising level of censorship and filtering.