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Ethics of Internet Freedom Promotion Welcome to the World of Human Rights: Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Bryan Ford Yale University Internet Freedom Internet freedom tools Censorship circumvention Online


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Ethics of Internet Freedom Promotion

Welcome to the World of Human Rights: Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Bryan Ford Yale University

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Internet Freedom

Internet freedom tools

  • Censorship circumvention
  • Online anonymity
  • Anti-surveillance
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An analogy

Humanitarian aid groups provide food, shelter, medical care, to people in conflict zones, in economic poverty, or living under repressive governments. Internet freedom groups provide uncensored Internet,

  • nline anonymity

to people in conflict zones, in information poverty, or living under repressive governments.

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An analogy

Humanitarian aid groups provide food, shelter, medical care, to people in conflict zones, in economic poverty, or living under repressive governments. Internet freedom groups provide uncensored Internet,

  • nline anonymity

to people in conflict zones, in information poverty, or living under repressive governments.

 Lots of soul-searching about ethics of aid  ???

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Open Internet as Human Right

“Everyone has the right to […] food, clothing, housing and medical care”

  • UDHR (Article 25)

“Everyone has the right to […] seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”

  • UDHR (Article 19)
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Ethics of human rights promotion

  • Impartiality
  • Impact
  • Consent
  • Cultural norms

In the paper

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Impartiality

Impartiality demands giving food, shelter, medical care to those on “both sides” of a conflict  Giving supplies to both sides can:

  • sustain a conflict
  • lead to outcome that is

worse for HRs

Should Internet freedom

  • rganizations give

support to “both sides” in a conflict? Pick sides? If orgs do pick sides, what is the basis for their decision?

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Impact

Measuring impact is important for donors and for self-evaluation. Orgs often pick metrics that are easy to measure:

  • # of bags of food distributed
  • $ spent

 These metrics don’t measure hunger, health,

  • r effectiveness

How should Internet freedom organizations measure impact? What does a positive “Internet freedom”

  • utcome look like?

more users ≠ internet freedom

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Conclusion

  • Internet freedom orgs can draw ethical lessons

from human rights orgs

  • Places to start:

– Journal of Ethics and International Affairs – Ethical Questions and International NGOs – www.spherehandbook.org