In 2020, technology firms with their headquarters in democratic countries will be expected to abide by a set of norms - for instance, the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) - [...] a Western telecommunications firm would not be able to selectively monitor or block the Internet activity of protestors at the behest of an authoritarian government without significant penalties in other markets.
In 2020, technology firms headquartered in democratic countries will have taken steps to minimize their usefulness as tools for political organizing by dissidents. [...] Indeed, in this world, commercial firms derive significant income from filtering and editing their services on behalf of the world's authoritarian regimes.
target year
2020
subject
technology firms and authoritarian censorship
share agree
51
share disagree
39
respondents
1021
majority view
agree
question format
tension_pair
confidence
high
note
The web text of the first statement is broken by a footnote on R2P; the gap is marked [...].