The issue of internet censorship has become a global concern. Harvard University’s Global Voices is one major organisation that translates bloggers from across the world and campaigns for imprisoned activists. The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit is taking place on June 27 and 28 in Budapest, Hungary. More than one hundred writers, dissidents, bloggers, journalists…
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Democracy is not a foreign word
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: We ignore the diversity of China’s web community at our peril, writes Antony Loewenstein Is the West afraid of Chinese patriotism? Some Chinese bloggers think it is but remain aware of the ways in which such sentiments could be…
More repression for the masses
How Google, Yahoo and Microsoft assist censorship of the internet in China.
How not to die on the job
The Committee to Protect Journalists reveals the parlous state of world affairs: At least 82 journalists fled their native countries under threat or harassment in the last 12 months, with more than half coming from conflict-ridden Iraq and Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in a new survey. The rate of journalists going…
Dissent with a Chinese face
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: The Olympic Games will show the world a different kind of China, writes Antony Loewenstein During last weekend’s Chinese Internet Research Conference in Hong Kong, Hu Yong, Associate Professor at Peking University, said that after the Sichuan earthquake, many…
Bearing the brunt
Bloggers are on the front line against repressive regimes across the world: More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report. Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report. In 2007 three times as…
Managing an internet multinational
Internet censorship is a growing problem around the world (the subject of my forthcoming book, The Blogging Revolution and an equally relevant issue in the West, such as France.) Now Google supposedly wants to help in the struggle: In an effort to identify traffic discrimination by American ISPs, Google is prepping a suite of network…
Is Google our future?
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on his company’s philosophy: The goal of the company is not to monetize anything. The goal is to change the world – and monetization is a technique to do that. Changing the world, one censoring step at a time.
The disaster that opened the door
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: Once small freedoms are granted in China, they are not easily reversed, writes Antony Loewenstein The Sichuan earthquake may have largely fallen off the Western media’s radar but the Chinese people remain focused on the disaster. A number of…
Blocking futility
Thousands of Syrian web-users continue to avoid the country’s draconian internet censorship restrictions that has left countless websites blocked.