The internet used to be an open road, with unrestricted access and use, based very much on trust and community values. Join panellists from Cambridge University's Computer Lab as they discuss recent developments, bumps and obstacles as we traverse down this open road.
Most people that used Email are aware of the rapid rise of spam, rendering it almost useless for many uses where reliability is essential. As the world moves on to use other services, we find that social media, blogging and news media access are also subject to various obstacles, some that impact performance, and some that intrude more explicitly, such as censorship, by site blocking, or bots, automated systems that create content, often for a particular political or commercial purpose.
In the Computer Laboratory, we've been studying these phenomena systematically for some years, and this panel will discuss what we have been finding.
