I was interviewed by Sarah Arnold in US magazine The Nation for an article published online on December 23: According to a Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report released December 4, of the 125 media workers in prison – a list that includes Ibrahim Jassam, a photographer held in US custody in Iraq – more…
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How to confound critics
What is the latest news about disappeared Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan?
The hammer approach
Wikileaks has released the secret internet censorship lists of Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT). The list was obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand. The 1,203 newly blocked websites are located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy,…
The futility of filtering
When the Chinese regime learn that censorship will never stop the flow of “subversive” information? Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had recently imposed on the Web sites of other media outlets.
A leader in repression?
Australia continues to pursue a plan to censor the internet. It is almost guaranteed to fail, for practical and ethical reasons. I was interviewed recently by the Knight Pulse project in the US about my thoughts. It’s worth reading the whole article, but my comment was: The Australian government’s plans to filter the Internet is…
Silencing the best
A report on the recent “Third Arab Free Press Forum” held in Beirut. Dictatorships across the Middle East, often backed by the US, have a woeful record in upholding press freedom.
A dark turn backwards
Is the Islamic Republic about to establish an internet court to filter websites and blogs?
Harvard Law School
Following my recent talk at Harvard University’s Berkman Centre on my book The Blogging Revolution, the Law School has just published a report on the event.
Learning from the Chinese?
Cuba’s regime still refuses to understand that censoring the internet and bloggers just makes it look petty and dictatorial. After all, the days of the “revolution” are coming to an end.
