Authority, Meet Technology: Will China’s Great Firewall Hold?

Posted by | Jan 20, 2010

Slate Magazine and the New America Foundation held a roundtable discussion about China’s Great Firewall in the aftermath of Google’s recent challenge to Chinese censorship and the lead-up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s upcoming speech about Internet freedom. Participants included: Evgeny Morozov, Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine; Rebecca MacKinnon, Fellow, Open Society Institute; Tim Wu, Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation; Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation, Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Moderator, James Fallows:

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