China has the most sophisticated web censorship in the world (something I examine in detail in my book, The Blogging Revolution.) Is Hong Kong soon to follow its master’s filtering path?
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Contact with the regime
What happened when the founder of Wikipedia met a leading Chinese internet censorship official?
Vibewire on The Blogging Revolution
Vibewire is one of Australia’s finest online youth portals (I used to write a regular column for them years ago.) I was recently interviewed by one of their writers, Jacqui Dent, about my book, The Blogging Revolution: Blogging is being used increasingly to speak out against oppression in authoritarian regimes and speak up amidst mainstream…
The Melbourne Age reviews The Blogging Revolution
The following book review of The Blogging Revolution appeared in the Melbourne Age on September 20: Antony Loewenstein’s journey through the blogging world brings some surprises, says Thuy On. In 2007, journalist Antony Loewenstein travelled to some of the world’s hot spots to meet up with bloggers, activists and dissidents whose cyber activities challenge the…
From Zionism to Communism
Israel is seemingly happy to sell weapons to anybody in the world and also train repressive regimes: Israel Police held secret training for Chinese police officers ahead of the recent Olympic Games, Haaretz has learned. The approximately six-week course was held in Israel for about 20 selected officers of the People’s Armed Police Force, to…
The web won’t set us free
My following article was published by the Washington Post online on September 26: During China’s milk powder crisis, with tens of thousands of babies affected by the contaminated goods, the country’s blogosphere railed against corrupt officials. One outraged blogger wrote: “What are the people in the Government doing? They just want mistresses, they want cash,…
New ways to make news matter
My following article is published today by the Melbourne Age: During the bruising Democratic Party tussle with Hillary Clinton in April, a citizen journalist recorded Obama saying that he understood why working-class voters in decrepit industrial towns were “bitter” and clung to “guns or religion”. Despite being a paid-up Obama supporter, writer Mayhill Fowler worked…
Highlighting the forgotten
China’s economic development has come at a hefty price: An illegitimate girl of primary-school age in Zhuhai , South China, was turned away by the local schools, because her mother is not able to afford the hefty fine for illegitimacy, according to sohu blogger Han Tao’s report. Just one more way how the Chinese blogosphere…