At an Oxford Union Debate on May 18, the motion 'This House believes that the Internet is the greatest force for democratization in the World' was narrowly defeated.
Speaking in favour of the Internet's force for democratisation were Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Chairman Bo Aung Din (Burma PDP) and Ron Deibert (University of Toronto), and speaking in opposition, Jonathan Zittrain (OII) Robert Amsterdam (Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Lawyer) and John Palfrey (Berkman Center).
