Source: Marketwire:
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 02/23/10 — With the world’s third largest economy and the largest number of Internet users in the world, the impact of China’s cyberspace control policies on Canada is formidable. Canada must strike a balance between its broader political and economic interests in China and open criticism of China’s human rights policies, Internet censorship and computer espionage abroad, concludes a new paper released today by the Canadian International Council (CIC).
China’s Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy notes that “Canada is home to some of the leading research and development projects on Internet censorship, surveillance and information warfare that, at times, are antagonistically linked to China.” The paper argues that the Canadian government should invest in areas where it can change China’s Internet content filtering and censorship practices. “There are at least three ways in which Canadian policy could make a positive impact and counter growing tendencies towards the censorship, surveillance and militarization of cyberspace that China presently leads,” says Ronald Deibert, author of the paper.