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In Radio Berkman 216 we tackle the web as we know it in 2014-2015. Hate speech online, freedom of speech online, censorship and surveillance online, and, of course, whether our smart machines are out to destroy us. All of these stories and more are part of this year's Internet Monitor report (https://thenetmonitor.org/research/2014), a collection of dozens of essays that track how we are changing the web and how the web is changing us. This episode's guests include: • Andy Sellars, author of "SOPA Lives: Copyright’s Existing Power to Block Websites and 'Break the Internet'" (http://medium.com/internet-monitor-2014-platforms-and-policy/sopa-lives-copyrights-existing-power-to-block-websites-and-break-the-internet-5b5a76ec6ff5) • Susan Benesch, author of "Flower Speech: New Responses to Hatred Online" (https://medium.com/internet-monitor-2014-public-discourse/flower-speech-new-responses-to-hatred-online-d98bf67735b7) • Nathan Freitas, author of "The Great Firewall Welcomes You!" (https://medium.com/internet-monitor-2014-international-issues/the-great-firewall-welcomes-you-c58e366def6b) • Sara Watson, author of "Dada Data and the Internet of Paternalistic Things" (https://medium.com/message/dada-data-and-the-internet-of-paternalistic-things-7bb4321d35c4) • David Michel Davies, of the Webby Awards on their recent report "Understanding the Sky-High Demands of the World’s Most Entitled Consumer" (http://www.slideshare.net/TheWebbyAwards/at-your-service-the-webby-awards) We also mentioned: • Randall Munroe's XKCD chart "Stories of the Past & Future" (http://xkcd.com/1491/) This episode features Creative Commons Music from: Berdan Chad Crouch (http://podingtonbear.com/) Learning Music Monthly (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/04_Ovulation) Timo Timonen (https://soundcloud.com/timotimonen/timo-timonen-shadow)