Is this the way for a media company to manage sensitive information? Channel 4 News has blocked internet users in China and Zimbabwe from accessing its films online for fear of reprisals against those involved in their investigations, an industry conference heard today. Tim Lambon, the assistant foreign editor of Channel 4 News, told delegates…
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The truth is hard to see
Has one of Iran’s most controversial Diaspora bloggers been arrested in the Islamic Republic?
Slam God and pay a price
Internet censorship is an insidious practice, better suited to dictatorships. Welcome Thailand: Reporters Without Borders condemns the Thai information ministry’s decision at the start of the month to spend up to 12 million euros on creating an Internet firewall to filter out websites deemed guilty of lese-majeste. “The Thai government’s desire to control online content…
Media monitors
Sydney PEN, an affiliate of International PEN, is an association of writers devoted to freedom of expression in Australia and in the world at large. In accordance with the PEN Charter it uses its influence on behalf of writers anywhere who are silenced by persecution, exile or imprisonment and acts as an authoritative source on… matters…
Iran isn’t the only problem
Internet censorship is increasingly occurring in so-called democracies, including Argentina: Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of country’s most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina to scrub the results of search queries. The list of…
Australia’s censoring tendencies
The Australian government’s plans to censor the internet are causing justified outrage. I was interviewed today by The Podcast Network about these issues, what activists can do to oppose the changes and the possible reasons behind them. (Here’s my previous interview with The Podcast Network about my book The Blogging Revolution.)
How politicians don’t understand the web, part 8642
As the issue of internet censorship heats up in Australia – along with my recent article in the Melbourne Age about the government’s absurd proposals – one of the best sites to track progress is Somebody Think of The Children. Take this post or this one. Simply put, our government is in thrall to the…
Government uploads hypocrisy with internet censorship
My following article appears in today’s Melbourne Age: Before this year’s Beijing Olympic Games, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chastised the Chinese authorities for blocking full access to the internet for the assembled world media: “My attitude to our friends in China is very simple”, he said. “They should have nothing to fear by open digital…
Why blog?
Australian blogger Amy Bradney-George on the ever-increasing importance of blogging in our media landscape: A few years back, around the beginning of 2006, I began reading blogs by friends and family as a way of keeping in touch with them. From there I realised how many people across the world are actually utilising this form…