Freedom House’s Christopher
Walker, a guest on the episode, characterizes the last five years globally as a
“freedom recession.” Walker says Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela, among
others countries, have developed extremely advanced
techniques that can be used for everything from monitoring most of their
cyberspace to blocking Web sites they view as detrimental to their governments—which
often means taking
down media sites. He talks about how
Other panelists on the show are David Keyes, founder of Cyberdissidents.org, and Bari Weiss, assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal. See the program’s site for air times across the country and to view the entire episode.