Google has a history of censoring at the behest of Communist China. Research in Motion happily opens up the BlackBerry to such stalwarts of liberty as Saudi Arabia. Yahoo has betrayed the email accounts of dissidents to the PRC. Facebook's obsession with personal transparency has revealed the identities of protestors to governments. For all the overheated rhetoric of liberty and cyber-utopia, it is clear that the corporations that rule cyberspace are making decisions that show little or no concern for their impact on political freedom. In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it's time for us to demand that our rights and freedoms are respected and protected before they're sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. -- From publisher description.

After the revolution -- Disruptions. Consent and sovereignty ; Rise of the digital commons -- Control 2.0. Networked authoritarianism ; Variants and permutations -- Democracy's challenges. Eroding accountability ; Democratic censorship ; Copywars -- Sovereigns of cyberspace. Corporate censorship ; Do no evil ; Facebookistan and Googledom -- What is to be done? Trust, but verify ; In search of "Internet freedom" policy ; Global Internet governance ; Building a netizen-centric Internet.