[Mitai-announce] Event: Internet Freedom and American Power, with Evgeny Morozov

[Daniel E. Pritchard]

*“Internet Freedom & American Power”
**Thursday, February 3rd
@ 5:00 pm
*E14-633, <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14> in the MIT Media Lab Complex

Conventional wisdom holds that Internet Freedom is a universally positive
value espoused in U.S. foreign policy. But Evgeny Morozov argues that the
U.S. Internet freedom policy is easily manipulated to support any goal,
including anti-democratic regime change, and that the policy will ultimately
trigger an authoritarian backlash of greater Internet control and
censorship. He'll debate the issue with Maxim Trudolubov, Guobin Yang, and
Daniel Drezner. Moderated by MIT Professor John Tirman.

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website<http://www.bostonreview.net/about/ideasmatter/#morozov>,
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*About the Speakers*
*Evgeny Morozov* is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and author of
*The Net Delusion*. • * Maxim Trudolubov* is Editorial Page Editor of the
Russian daily *Vedomosti* and has written about new media and Russian
politics for *New York Review of Books* and *The New York Times*. He is
currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. • *Guobin Yang* is
Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College
and author of *The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online*.
• *Daniel Drezner* is Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and author of *All Politics
Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes*. • Moderator * John
Tirman* is Executive Director of the MIT Center for International Studies
and author of the forthcoming *The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians
in America’s Wars*.

“Internet Freedom & American Power” is an *Ideas Matter* event. Founded in
2010, *Ideas Matter* is a lecture series modeled on the *Boston
Review*forum feature and held at MIT, co-sponsored by
*Boston Review* and the MIT Political Science Department.

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