Greetings. In late January, I was invited to Google's Los Angeles (Santa Monica) facilities to give an informal talk (titled Internet and Empires) on a range of Internet-related topics. Video of that presentation is now available, and since it touches on a number of familiar issues, I thought that it might be of some interest.

The topics naturally included a number of the controversial issues related to Google, but also more generally privacy, free speech, ISPs, data retention, government and legal issues, censorship, DOJ, network neutrality, China, and more.

The talk ran about an hour and the video will reportedly be available as one of Google's Tech Talks. Windows Media and MP4 versions of the video, as well as a Flash direct playback video streaming version, and an audio-only (MP3) version, are available below (my thanks to Google for providing me with a video master for processing).

Please note that all of the opinions expressed in this talk of course are mine, and should naturally not be construed to represent the views of Google, Inc.

Thanks.

--Lauren--

Video - Windows Media: Download (~36MB)

Video - MP4: Download (~72MB)

Audio Only - MP3: Download (~15MB)

Video via Google Video: Streaming

Video via YouTube: Streaming