Instagram arms control: WMD prevention versus internet freedom
Al JazeeraWe must not take internet freedom for granted and push too hard on “promoting social verification technologies”. Should we then reconsider whether pursuing overt “citizen verification through social media” or “anti-censorship and surveillance” initiatives – such as the US State Department’s $23m public solicitation for technologies that help overcome censorship and surveillance in “internet hostile” environments – advance our national interests? Social verification technologies Our main argument is that we must not take internet freedom for granted and push too hard and too fast on promoting social verification technologies. Social verification and internet freedom programmes could even provide the grounds for political elites in “internet hostile” countries to successfully re-frame the international debate over the internet from “the backbone of global economic growth” to “the primary threat to state sovereignty”.
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