<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This is live now. Worth rewinding to the start.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666666;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;background:#dddddd"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "On Friday October 30 2015 Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs will present a lunchtime panel The High Politics of Internet Governance: Global Policy Conflicts a Decade after the World Summit on the Information Society. On Dece" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto;background-color:#ffffff" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Today, <strong>Wednesday October 28 2015</strong>, <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://freedomhouse.org/" tabindex="-1">Freedom House</a></strong> has released the <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2015" tabindex="-1">Freedom on the Net Report 2015</a></strong>. The Internet Society policy team has <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/10/freedom-internet-where-does-your-country-stand" tabindex="-1">summarized</a></strong> its findings saying the report:</p><blockquote style="margin:0px;padding:2px 12px;color:#888888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;background:#f1f1f1"><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;font-size:1em;line-height:1.4em">offers a stark, and concerning, view on the current status of online freedoms. Out of the 65 countries assessed, the report concludes that Internet freedom in the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year. Governments that had already expanded their arsenal of tools for controlling the online sphere are now strengthening their application of these methods</p></blockquote><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The report is being launched with a panel discussion with speakers <strong>Gady Epstein</strong> of The Economist, <strong>Eileen Donahoe</strong> of Human Rights Watch, <strong>Chinmayi Arun</strong> of the Centre for Communication Governance, and activists<strong>Grace Githaiga</strong> and <strong>Tetyana Lokot</strong>. The event is being webcast live via the <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://youtu.be/b3oiURFvhQU" tabindex="-1">Freedom House YouTube Channel</a></strong>.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br><strong>Watch on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://youtu.be/b3oiURFvhQU" tabindex="-1">https://youtu.be/b3oiURFvhQU</a></p><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#dddddd;background-color:#efefef" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#f3f3f3;color:#888888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 10px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>​Permalink</strong></div><br><a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8159" tabindex="-1">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8159</a><br><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;height:3px;background-color:#43a4d0" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding=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