Presented at
The Circle Of HOPE (2018),
July 20, 2018, 11 a.m.
(60 minutes)
The Internet around us is increasingly regulated and censored. Censorship is present across the web - influenced by law, politics, activism, and corporations. This panel discussion will highlight some of the successful strategies being used to understand online censorship and to support our voices in the online forum. The conversation will cover recent events that impinge our online speech, and what we can do about it.
Presenters:
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Will Scott
**Will Scott** (@willscott) is a security postdoc at the University of Michigan. He researches censorship, private communication, and connectivity in extreme environments. He has collaborated with the Open Observatory of Network Interference for the last three years.
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Lex Gill
**Lex Gill** (@lex_is) is a research fellow at The Citizen Lab, where her work focuses on privacy, expression, national security law, censorship, and surveillance. She has previously worked for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Policy Clinic, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Lex holds a B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill University’s Faculty of Law.
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Sergey Frolov
**Sergey Frolov** (@srfrolov) is a third year computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is researching Internet censorship and network security. Sergey works on practical anti-censorship solutions, including detection and protection against TLS fingerprinting, a probe-resistant web proxy technique, and TapDance - a type of refraction networking focused on deployment.
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Ksenia Ermoshina
**Ksenia Ermoshina** (@edok_lotosov) is a research fellow at The Citizen Lab. Her work is supported by the Open Technology Fund as part of Information Control Fellowship. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology of science and technologies from Mines ParisTech School of Engineering, and her current research is focused on information controls in Crimea after the annexation of the region by the Russian Federation. She’s interested in Internet topology and Internet censorship in this disputed area; she also analyzes digital threats to activists and journalists working in or with Crimea. Previously, she’s been a postdoctoral researcher at the European Horizon 2020 research project NEXTLEAP, where she conducted research on the development of encryption protocols and usage of secure messaging applications among high-risk populations.
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Roya Ensafi
**Roya Ensafi** (@royaensafi) is a research assistant professor at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on security and privacy, with an emphasis on designing techniques and systems to protect users from hostile networks. Much of her work focuses on detecting and defending against adversaries who manipulate Internet traffic in order to block, monitor, or otherwise tamper with users’ online activities.
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