Presentation on Freedom of Expression, given to the 'International Symposium on Freedom of Expression', UNESCO, Paris 26 January 2011.

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 International Symposium on Freedom of Expression, UNESCO, Paris, 26 January 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

13. IPR: Patents

14. Competition Policy

15. Technology-led Industrial Strategies

18. Brazilian Copyright Reform BillCopyright Mot

20. Decency: Pornography

21. Libel: Defamation

22. Prevention of Hate Speech

23. Consumer Protection: FraudCopyright Mugley

25. Domain Names and Numbers

26. Net Neutrality

27. Licensing, Regulation of Service Providers: Intermediaries

30. Security against Malware

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

32. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression

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

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

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

38. Global Increase in Content Filtering and Censorship

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

41. 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

42. William H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law,andVictoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Opinionsexpressed in thisreportarethose of theauthors and do notnecessarilyreflecttheviews of UNESCO orits Division forFreedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace. Presentation for the International Symposium on Freedom of Expression, UNESCO, Paris, 26 January 2011.