Karin Spaink

Location: Amsterdam | the Netherlands
Speaking Topics: Electronic patient records | Freedom of speech | Gaming | hacking | Privacy | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English | Dutch

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In the middle of 1995, I got involved with civil rights issues on the net on a rather personal level: Scientology raided my provider, XS4all, over a homepage that one of their other customers had put on-line. That raid brought about a whole cascade of questions: are homepages the responsibility of their makers, or of those through which systems they are served? Are internet providers to be regarded as publishers, or as common carriers? Is a complaint enough on the net to make a provider pull a page? How does censorship on the net work?

Previous Presentations: 
NLUUG, May 2008: Hacking and health records
Toronto, October 2005: World Press and Freedom of speech on the net
Paris, 2004: OSCE conference about Xenophobia, racism and hate on the internet