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[Commlist] cfp: Internet Fragmentation and Censorship. Are we heading to Splinternet and Cyber Sovereignty?

Sun Dec 10 07:09:30 GMT 2023






Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Law
in cooperation with
University of Bucharest Faculty of Law and University of Zenica Faculty of Law

*Internet Fragmentation and Censorship.
Are we heading to Splinternet and Cyber Sovereignty?
International Scientific Conference
March 22-23, 2024 Budapest, Hungary

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS**

CfP link: https://tinyurl.com/cfpelte <https://tinyurl.com/cfpelte>

A divergence between cyber libertarianism and cyber paternalism characterised discussion topics related to internet governance in the 1990s. Decisions on content regulation issues seemed to have been settled in the US with the Communication Decency Act Section 230 and Europe with the notice-and-takedown system of the E-commerce Directive. However, the era of privatised freedom of expression (Balkin, 2018) faced several challenges from the mid-twentieth century onwards, from Christchurch and troll farms to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. For a few years now, internet regulation has become a vital issue on the political agenda in all parts of the world, characterised in the US by the need to amend CDA230 (Snider, 2023) and the 'dragging' of giant tech mammoths before the Senate; in Europe, the process of adopting the DSA-DMA-EMFA package of regulations (Barata, 2022), while in China, for example, it is characterised by the ongoing development of the Golden Shield and the Great Firewall based on cyber-sovereignty (Schultz, 2021), and in Russia by the wish to disconnect from the international internet network (Nachbar, 2022). The increasingly undemocratic practices of these latter rogue States can be attractive to many other countries, and the export of such solutions started (Bennet - Naim 2015).

Governments around the world are increasingly resorting to restricting the internet (Bischoff, 2023), often for illegitimate purposes and always with disproportionate impacts on the public (UN 2020), while global norms have shifted dramatically towards greater government intervention in the digital sphere (Freedom House, 2021). The technical and legal solutions to these can range from denying user access through filtering technologies and unlawful bandwidth throttling to collateral, excessive and wholesale blocking by States (Gosztonyi, 2023). Independent observers and States gave very different reasons for the restrictions of access to content (AccessNow, 2023; NetBlocks, 2023).

*Important dates*
Deadline for abstract submission: December 15, 2023
Notification of acceptance for the conference: January 10, 2024
Submission of final paper: March 15, 2024
Conference dates: March 22-23, 2024

*Confirmed keynote speakers*

  * David Frautschy (Internet Society)
  * Gabriella Schittek (ICANN)
  * Joan Barata (Cyber Policy Center, Stanford University)
  * András Koltay (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)


*The conference seeks submissions that address a wide range of topics related to internet shutdowns and Splinternet, including but not limited to:*

  * Internet shutdowns around the world
  * Internet connectivity and the right to know
  * Internet access as a basic human right
  * Internet censorship
  * Network sovereignty, digital sovereignty, cyber sovereignty
  * Internet governance and legislation: questions of the Splinternet
  * Fragmentation of the network and the law
  * Filtering and blocking websites by governments
  * Legal and illegal reasons for content restrictions
  * The views of technology companies
  * Internet content moderation
  * Options for resistance to restrictions
  * Tech literacy and cyber awareness

No charges will be added for the authors of the papers for the publication.

For further information, please contact Dr. Gergely Gosztonyi, PhD ((gosztonyi /at/ ajk.elte.hu) <mailto:(gosztonyi /at/ ajk.elte.hu)><mailto:(gosztonyi /at/ ajk.elte.hu) <mailto:(gosztonyi /at/ ajk.elte.hu)>>) or Dr. Elena Lazar, PhD ((elena.lazar /at/ drept.unibuc.ro) <mailto:(elena.lazar /at/ drept.unibuc.ro)><mailto:(elena.lazar /at/ drept.unibuc.ro) <mailto:(elena.lazar /at/ drept.unibuc.ro)>>)


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