variety of publications including how to zero and bloomberg puts grow please tell me to welcome rebecca mackinnon. [applause] as a professional journalist dai ask the first series of questions. rebecca, you call for a new way of looking at to internet policy is. those use the internet to to hold the government and corporations accountable. they could be as powerful with the state's with the aggressive copyright measures that were withdrawn, people feel this can work darfur coby enough to approach test could lead to government policy. it is not as easy with corporations. what does it take to get companies to balance the drive for profits with more moral questions? >> guest: we can look as centers. in the '70s friedman wrote an essay fifth family a social responsibility was value for shareholders -- shareholders. that is when we had the first birthday with psat social awakening of sustainability and long-term generating for society and is self more than just a short-term profits but delivering value of high you are sustainable. and of products contribute to the life and planet we want to have. with

ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming rebecca mackinnon and julian york.applause] as a professional journalist i get to as the first series of questions before we turn it over to the audience and rebecca i would love to start with you. you call in your book for a sort of new way of looking at the way internet allah caesar conducted and empowerment on the network users and us regular people who use the internet both to hold their governments accountable wherever they are and also corporations which can be as powerful as nation-states. and i think in the past couple of months, with the on line protests over the rather aggressive anti-copyright measures that recently were withdrawn in congress, people feel that this can actually work, that internet protests and sharing of information can lead to changes in government policy. but it doesn't seem when it comes to corporations. what would it take to get companies to balance their drive for profits with these more moral questions? >> well, i think we can look to other sectors and how companies change. back in 197

rebecca has done. very valuable. miss mackinnon is a journalist and activist whose work focuses on the internet, human rights and foreign policy. she is co-founder of global voices on line and found a member of the global network initiative. flynn in mandarin chinese she worked for cnn in beijing for nine years serving as the beijing bureau chief and correspondent and tokyo bureau chief and correspondent. she taught online journalism and conducted research for chinese censorship the university of hong kong. she was at the center on press and public policy. a research fellow at the brooklyn center for internet at harvard. and senior fellow at the new america foundation. cheese examine u.s. policies related to the internet, even rights and global internet freedom. jillian york is director of international freedom of expression at the frontier foundation based in san francisco. a long-term activist she is interested in government censorship, policing of content in corporate online space is, anonymity surveillance technology and tools

before i do that at that to say word about rebecca mackinnon spoke which i think is very valuable and a real contribution to the network and it's just come out. i think probably the closest parallel is marisa spoke, the

latest attack on our rights as rebecca mackinnon and attorney privacy advocate rebecca walker thank you town great to have you here just how serious is a breach as a breach of privacy is this ruling whether it's one of the worst flames of the fourth amendment are being extinguished throughout the entire country once again under the guise of police protection and law enforcement protection and i just think that the justices are out of step with what's going on since nine eleven in the united states this is not going to turn the frowns upside down that's pretty darn sure since nine eleven the people of of the united states of america all suffered greatly and we are suffering more and more every day because it's turning into a police state and i think that the outcry of trayvon martin is the finger of the pulse has to be touched it's an outrage because it's happening in every state everywhere the brutality and the invasion of privacy by law enforcement and now it's going to continue in the jails and if you look at what happened in this case what happened to albert lawrence you know you guy