Regulating Speech in Cyberspace Laidlaw Emily B. University of Calgary
Regulating Speech in Cyberspace Laidlaw Emily B. University of Calgary Private companies exert considerable control over the flow of information on the internet. Such gatekeepers are powerful forces…
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Regulating Speech in Cyberspace Laidlaw Emily B. University of Calgary
Private companies exert considerable control over the flow of information on the internet. Such gatekeepers are powerful forces in facilitating or hindering freedom of expression online. Whether users are finding information with a search engine, communicating on a social networking site or accessing the internet through an ISP, access to participation can be blocked, channelled, edited or personalised.
Regulating Speech in Cyberspace explores how these gatekeepers operate at the intersection of three fields of study: regulation (more broadly, law), corporate social responsibility and human rights. This is problematic for a human rights system which has historically treated human rights as a government responsibility, and this is compounded by the largely light-touch regulatory approach to the internet in the West. It proposes an alternative corporate governance model for speech