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On Point with Tom Ashbrook

The Future Of Internet Freedom December 5, 2012

The Internet was born free. A novel network that spanned the globe before governments entirely understood what was going on. But they know now. More than forty nations now filter and censor the web. Some have just plain shut it down - think Syria last week. At a big UN meeting this week in Dubai, there is a fresh push to give national governments more control over the global web. Maybe through the U.N. China, Russia, Iran appear to like the idea. The control. The U.S. and big American companies -- Google, Facebook -- do not.

This hour, On Point: alarm bells over global Internet freedom.

-Tom Ashbrook

Guests

Brian Murphy, Dubai bureau chief for the Associated Press.

Tom Gjelten, covers a wide variety of global security and economic issues for National Public Radio.

Ronald Deibert, Director of Citizen Lab and a professor at the University of Toronto.