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Nature 452, 155-156 (13 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452155b; Published online 12 March 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

Census of cyberspace censoring

Bruce Schneier1

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edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain
MIT Press
: 2008. 320 pp. $20.00, £12.95

In 1993, Internet pioneer John Gilmore said "the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it", and we believed him. In 1996, cyberlibertarian John Perry Barlow issued his 'Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace' at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, and online.