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Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side?

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Raphael Cohen-Almagor, the author of Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side, explains his motivation for exploring the dangerous side of the world wide web. This new book is the first comprehensive book on social responsibility on the Internet.

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  1. “‘Bullying’ link to child suicide rate, charity suggests”, BBC.com (June 13, 2010), http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10302550.stm

  2. Andre Picard, “Gunman shot student again and again,” Globe and Mail (September 15, 2006): A8; Jan Wong, “Get under the desk,” Globe and Mail (September 16, 2006): A9; Jain Ajit, “Raging, alienated, Gill was a walking time bomb,” India Abroad (New York) (September 22, 2006): A1; Natalie Pona, “Net violence unchecked,” Toronto Sun (September 15, 2006): 4; “Profile posted by Kimveer Gill,” National Post (September 15, 2006): A4.

  3. LICRA v. Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo France (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, 22 May 2000); Yahoo! Inc. V. LICRA and UEJF, 169F Supp 2d 1181 (ND Cal. 2001).

  4. Council of Europe – Convention on Cybercrime - http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/185.htm.

  5. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/

  6. http://centeroncongress.org/lee-h-hamilton-biography

  7. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/michael-van-dusen

  8. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/11/AR2010121102393.html

  9. John Rawls is regarded as one of the great political philosophers of the 20th Century. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/

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  1. Middle East Study Group, School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies, The University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

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Cohen-Almagor, R. Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side?. Philosophia 45, 919–929 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9658-7

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