The following news story and interview, by Rob Bates (photo by Alan Place), appears in this week’s Wentworth Courier newspaper: Controversial author, journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein will host an event at Paddington’s Fringe Bar to discuss internet censorship and the brave few who rise against it. Loewenstein’s first book, My Israel Question, received mixed…
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Time Out Sydney on blogging
My following article is published in this week’s Time Out Sydney magazine: In the years after September 11, 2001, I was constantly frustrated by the failure of the Western media to examine the real reasons behind the attacks. It was as if only a Western journalist’s filter was allowed to see the post 9/11 world.…
When discrimination is simply wrong
Google, a company that loves to collude with the Chinese regime, shows its softer side (via Think Progress): Proposition 8, a California constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, has attracted an unlikely assortment of foes, including Vice President Cheney’s daughter Mary, Brad Pitt, and Steven Spielberg. Yesterday, Google also took the unusual step of…
Down the path of authoritarianism
Who says online filtering is only happening in “repressive” regimes? Alas, America is becoming the home of imposed political censorship onlne.
The Committee to Protect Bloggers on my book
The following review of The Blogging Revolution is published by the Committee to Protect Bloggers: I told Antony Loewenstein well over a month ago that I would review his book, “The Blogging Revolution.” I’ve put it off not because the book’s no good but because I simply hate reviewing books. It takes forever and, if…
Australia embraces web censorship
My following article appears on the Global Voices Advocacy site: The issue of internet censorship generally involves countries deemed non-democratic or “repressive” (something I discuss in my new book, The Blogging Revolution.) We regularly read reports about the regimes in China or Iran blocking countless “subversive” websites for overtly political gain. Alas, a growing number…
Keep the government out of our lives
October 11 was Freedom Not Fear 2008 across the world, designed to protest the ever-growing tendency of governments to monitor its citizens:
The fading power of Castro
How the internet is changing Cuba into a more open society, despite the best efforts of the regime to arrest this progress.
Behind a repressive curtain
Reporters Without Borders condemns the way the Burmese military government has paralysed the Internet, silencing online dissidents and carrying out regular raids on Internet cafés, while hacker attacks have blocked access to the leading websites with news and information about Burma for the past few weeks.
The BBC on The Blogging Revolution
I was interviewed earlier this week by the BBC Radio Five program Pods and Blogs. We discussed my new book, The Blogging Revolution, the growing tendency of Western governments to try and censor the web and the role of Western multinationals, such as Skype, to assist the Chinese regime in its filtering process.