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"At an Oxford Union Debate on 18 May the motion 'This House believes that the Internet is the greatest force for democratization in the World' was defeated...speaking in favour of the Internet as a democratizing force were Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Ron Deibert (University of Toronto) and Bo Aung Din (Burma PDP), and in opposition: Jonathan Zittrain (OII), Robert Amsterdam (Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Lawyer) and John Palfrey (Berkman Center)."

http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/

If you don't have time to wade through the speeches Tobias Escher blogged the night:

http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/05/18/oxford-union-debatethis-hou...

Didn't make it myself. Me and Ophelia had other plans.


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