Regulating Speech in Cyberspace: Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Respons

Description: Regulating Speech in Cyberspace by Emily B. Laidlaw When a social networking provider deletes a group it deems offensive or an ISP blocks access to content online, it takes on a powerful role in regulating speech on the internet. Regulating Speech in Cyberspace examines the legal and social challenges of the impact of businesses on free speech online. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Private companies exert considerable control over the flow of information on the internet. 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. Such gatekeepers are powerful forces in facilitating or hindering freedom of expression online. 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. 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. It proposes an alternative corporate governance model for speech regulation, one that acts as a template for the increasingly common use of non-state-based models of governance for human rights. Author Biography Emily B. Laidlaw is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, prior to which she spent almost ten years in the United Kingdom where she completed her LLM and PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science and held a lectureship at the University of East Anglia. She researches and advises in the areas of information technology, copyright and media law, human rights and corporate social responsibility. Table of Contents 1. The internet as democratising force; 2. A framework for identifying internet information gatekeepers; 3. Corporate social responsibility in cyberspace; 4. Mechanisms of information control: ISPs; 5. Mechanisms of information control: search engines; 6. A corporate governance model for the digital age. Promotional This book analyses the role of businesses in regulating and influencing the exercise of free speech on the internet. Promotional "Headline" This book analyses the role of businesses in regulating and influencing the exercise of free speech on the internet. Description for Bookstore When a social networking provider deletes a group it deems offensive or an ISP blocks access to content online, it takes on a powerful role in regulating speech on the internet. Regulating Speech in Cyberspace examines the legal and social challenges of the impact of businesses on free speech online. Description for Library When a social networking provider deletes a group it deems offensive or an ISP blocks access to content online, it takes on a powerful role in regulating speech on the internet. Regulating Speech in Cyberspace examines the legal and social challenges of the impact of businesses on free speech online. Details ISBN1107626994 ISBN-10 1107626994 ISBN-13 9781107626997 Format Paperback Pages 356 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Emily B. Laidlaw Publisher Cambridge University Press DEWEY 343.0999 Affiliation University of Calgary Subtitle Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-02-02 Illustrations 7 Halftones, unspecified; 7 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white Short Title Regulating Speech in Cyberspace Language English UK Release Date 2017-02-02 AU Release Date 2017-02-02 NZ Release Date 2017-02-02 Alternative 9781107049130 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101562138;

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