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Home 01 Apr 2017 Human rights and regular Internet users Internet Human rights are a topic that came up several times at the IETF meeting that just ended. There's a Human Rights Research Group that had a session with a bunch of short presentations, and the featured two talks at the plenary asking Can Internet Protocols Affect Human Rights? The second one, by David Clark of MIT was particularly good, talking about "tussle" and how one has to design for it or else people will work around you. You can watch it here. Although his talk was a lot better than most of the human rights stuff I've heard in technical fora, the rest of the discussion had the same old problem: true believers obsessing about a very narrow set of issues. See more ...   posted at: 18:45 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/userrights.html

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