Very readworthy booklet published by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Experts from UNESCO and the Council of Europe as well as journalists and internet service providers contributed their papers from a one-day workshop on freedom of the media and the Internet that was held in Vienna in November 2002.

The topics of the papers include universal access to Cyberspace; Council of Europe activities regarding new information and communication technologies; the diminishing importance of constitutional rights in the Internet age; the importance of the public domain for creativity, innovation, and culture; and censorship and intellectual property rights in an international context.

In his contribution 'Burning the village to roast the pig', Felipe Rodriquez (founder of NL internet provider XS4ALL) outlines different approaches to censorship and technical means of escaping it. Optimistically he concludes: "Implementing any kind of on-line censorship is a technological battle, any censorship technology can, and will, be defeated."

From quill to cursor: freedom of the media in the digital era (14.04.2003)
http://www.osce.org/documents/rfm/2003/04/41_en.pdf