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FEMALE SPEAKER: Welcome to all of you to Goggle's Big Tent
and today's discussion on freedom and safety online.
ROSS LAJEUNESSE: These issues are not easy.
That's one of the reasons why we have this Big Tent, because
balancing the rights of individuals to free expression
and openness with the rights of government and the
responsibility of government to keep their citizens safe
and secure, that's not an easy balance to strike.
The hope is that we get to the right point.
CARL BILDT: The internet is clearly
bringing the world together.
Some people are not entirely comfortable with that.
If you are a regime that tries to limit the ability of your
people to access the rest of the world, then if the world
is coming together, that's a bloody uncomfortable thing.
INGVAR AKESSON: Cyber crime, here and now, is compromising
many, many IT systems, stealing money, intellectual
property, and other commercial secrets.
PATRIK HISELIUS: If there is no cost for the authority to
conduct the surveillance, then there is no limit.
They can do as much tapping or surveillance as they want.
EVA GALPERIN: Online surveillance scales.
It scales massively, and so the marginal cost of
surveilling one more person is essentially zero.
And that makes it very, very tempting to do.
And authoritarian regimes and also the NSA have been taking
advantage of this for years.
FRANCESCA BOSCO: Cyber crime is a worldwide phenomenon.
Clearly, the internet has no borders.
Therefore, criminals have no borders.
So we need to change a little bit our mindset in approaching
cyberspace and analyzing the criminal phenomenon on
cyberspace.
JACOB MCHANGAMA: If we criminalize making insulting
statements, if we have, like in the UK, someone being
imprisoned for 56 days for tweeting something racist, is
that the kind of behavior we want to criminalize, or should
we focus it on serious crimes?
ROBERT HARDH: When it comes to humans right work, it's not
about the principles or the lack of legislation, it's the
lack of implementation.
ROSS LAJEUNESSE: But at the end of the day, I believe that
open always beats closed.
BRIAN DONALD: You know, I balance the argument on civil
rights and human rights by saying that it's usually the
fundamental human right is to be able to live a life.