Regulating speech in cyberspace : gatekeepers, human rights and corporate responsibility /

Regulating speech in cyberspace : gatekeepers, human rights and corporate responsibility /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Laidlaw, Emily B., author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Internet service providers -- Law and legislation. Freedom of expression. Freedom of information. Internet service providers -- Law and legislation. Freedom of expression. Freedom of information. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588487

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ISBN:	9781107278721 1107278724 9781316358054 1316358054 110704913X 9781107049130 1107626994 9781107626997 9781107049130 9781107626997
Notes:	Based on the author's thesis (doctoral -- London School of Economics, 2012) issued under title: 'Information Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibilities. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Private companies exert considerable control over the flow of information on the internet. Whether users are finding information with a search engine, communicating on a social networking site or accessing the internet through an ISP, access to participation can be blocked, channelled, edited or personalised. Such gatekeepers are powerful forces in facilitating or hindering freedom of expression online. This is problematic for a human rights system which has historically treated human rights as a government responsibility, and this is compounded by the largely light-touch regulatory approach to the internet in the west. Regulating Speech in Cyberspace explores how these gatekeepers operate at the intersection of three fields of study: regulation (more broadly, law), corporate social responsibility and human rights. It proposes an alternative corporate governance model for speech regulation, one that acts as a template for the increasingly common use of non-state-based models of governance for human rights"--
Other form:	Print version: Laidlaw, Emily B. Regulating speech in cyberspace. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107049130

Table of Contents:

The internet as a democratising force
A framework for identifying internet information gatekeepers
Corporate social responsibility in cyberspace
Mechanisms of information control: ISPs
Mechanisms of information control: search engines
A corporate governance model for the Digital Age.