Also, Dr. Palfrey, it is an honor for us to have you with us.

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By contrast, a 2002 study found that only two countries censored the Web, says Palfrey, who is also an investigator at OpenNet.

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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Judith Palfrey.

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But according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, complying with government censoring efforts is a "wildly expensive thing" for Internet firms to do.

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But neither Myanmar nor any other country has ever attempted a sudden shutdown of the Internet, and the cutoff from the outside world was unsustainable, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

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