Wikileaks and private Internet censorship

Links to the analysis here.

Internet users 1998-2010

Use this global graphic to trace development of subscribers - and how dominant the US was in 1998.

Keep up to date on net neutrality and co-regulation via blogs

Hello from the wintry wonderland of Essex - snow for the last four days! Do keep watching the subject blogs on e-commerce and freedom of expression, as well as net neutrality policy (with video links to my European Parliament speech) and co-regulation (with a link to my next book).

Blocking Facebook (S.Arabia) and YouTube (Turkey)

Keep up to date with the blocking of these ubiquitous social networking sites (SNS) by following the ONI map. With a billion YouTube accounts and 700million Facebook users, they are now as big as China or India in user numbers (but only as prevalent as governments which permit or deny them market access).

Check current news: Marsden speaks at European institutions' hearing

Keep up to date by following this link - and you'll notice the blog roll for the Internet Law courses keeps being updated??!!

University of Essex at 50! Happy birthday

Its nice to celebrate a half-century (founded 1961, first students 1964) with a film - as Internet law teaching is a decade old in 2011-12!, we can wish each other happy birthday

Essex YouTube site

Its well worth having a virtual tour via our YouTube channel.