The Real News Network Live Web Event: The End of the Free Internet

The Real News Network Live Web Event: The End of the Free Internet

CHICAGO, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --

Who Moderator:
Paul Jay, Senior Editor, The Real News Network

Panelists:
-- Tim Bray, Co-Inventor of XML and Former Director of Web
Technologies at Sun Microsystems
--Rebecca Parsons, Chief Technology Officer, ThoughtWorks,
Inc.
--Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Adjunct Professor of
Law at Georgetown University

Paul Jay, senior editor of The Real News Network, will
moderate a virtual panel discussion promoting a dialogue for
the technology community about the technological and legal
What ramifications of the WikiLeaks shutdown.

Topics to be discussed include:
--What does the cut off of service to WikiLeaks mean for the
future of the Internet?
-- Will digital journalism be less protected?
--Was WikiLeaks afforded procedural protections before its
website and DNS entries were shut down? What process should
be required?
--The Internet is vulnerable to internal threats. What
technical innovations are needed?
-- Can leaks ever be stopped? Is it worth the price?

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--http://therealnews.com/t2/
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Live chat during the broadcast

Where Live at www.therealnews.com

When: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
8:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

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