http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/05/18/oxford-union-debate-the-internet-is-the-greatest-force-for-democratisation/ is a Research Assistant and a DPhil Student Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/05/18/oxford-union-debate-the-internet-is-the-greatest-force-for-democratisation/comment-page-1/#comment-3810 cearta.ie » Blog Archive » I must be doing something right? Sat, 19 May 2007 10:25:05 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/05/18/oxford-union-debate-the-internet-is-the-greatest-force-for-democratisation/#comment-3810 [...] Eamon and I must be doing something right … Update (19 May 2007): More on ONI from the BBC and MediaPal@LSE; and another live blog from the day from Tobias Escher at the OII. The ONI website also has a system for checking whether a site is blocked, and according to that, neither Rainy Day nor Cearta is blocked by anyone, not even by China. What a pity. Of course, this raises the age old question of trust, especially online. What was it about Great Wall that led both Eamonn and me to trust its assessment that our sites were blocked, or at least to trust it sufficiently to blog about it - perhaps it was because it told us what we wanted to hear? And what is it about the ONI that leads me to trust its assessment over Great Wall’s - perhaps it is because I am already familiar with, and already respect, the work of many of the people involved? Deep philosophical questions about the nature of trust here, then. All the same, I still think it’s a pity that the ONI check didn’t come up with the same result as the Great Wall check. To reflect the difference, I’ve added the question mark to the title. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] Eamon and I must be doing something right … Update (19 May 2007): More on ONI from the BBC and MediaPal@LSE; and another live blog from the day from Tobias Escher at the OII. The ONI website also has a system for checking whether a site is blocked, and according to that, neither Rainy Day nor Cearta is blocked by anyone, not even by China. What a pity. Of course, this raises the age old question of trust, especially online. What was it about Great Wall that led both Eamonn and me to trust its assessment that our sites were blocked, or at least to trust it sufficiently to blog about it – perhaps it was because it told us what we wanted to hear? And what is it about the ONI that leads me to trust its assessment over Great Wall’s – perhaps it is because I am already familiar with, and already respect, the work of many of the people involved? Deep philosophical questions about the nature of trust here, then. All the same, I still think it’s a pity that the ONI check didn’t come up with the same result as the Great Wall check. To reflect the difference, I’ve added the question mark to the title. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

]]> http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/05/18/oxford-union-debate-the-internet-is-the-greatest-force-for-democratisation/comment-page-1/#comment-3799 Oxford Union Debate:”This House believes that the Internet is the greatest force for Democratisation in the World” at Tobias Escher at the OII Fri, 18 May 2007 22:22:12 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/05/18/oxford-union-debate-the-internet-is-the-greatest-force-for-democratisation/#comment-3799 [...] (for some background on the event see my earlier post) [...] [...] (for some background on the event see my earlier post) [...]

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