As I cover extensively in my book The Blogging Revolution, web hosting firms are increasingly keen to censor websites if deemed too “controversial”: The fear is that web hosting providers may decide it’s simply less trouble to prohibit host blogs in countries where some individuals are sanctioned. Best to know a company’s terms of use…
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Our control is developing
A session at the Open Forum Institute in New York on February 10 about The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age:
Spreading the good word
Internet evangelists, from West Africa to Sri Lanka, are finding that their efforts to empower the 80 per cent of the world that still waits for Internet access often bring unexpected results. Rural communities have their own way of participating in the digital age.
Talking Palestine in Ubud
I’m currently in Ubud, Bali after being invited by the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival to conduct an event tonight. The following article appears in the current edition of the local paper, The Bali Advertiser: 2009 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival presents Antony Loewenstein author of “My Israel Question” and “The Blogging Revolution” Just as…
How to become a photographer in one simple step
During my recent visit to Berlin I took the following photo of the Komische Oper, a leading cultural space in the city (and soon to be run by my friend, Barrie Kosky). I discovered today that this photo has been published in the Schmap! Berlin guide book. It’s a small world.
Stifling the voices
My book, The Blogging Revolution, examines the Western corporates that assist the Chinese regime in its internet censorship program. According to yesterday’s New York Times, the Communists are cracking down ever-harder in the last months: It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek alternative to the stultifying variety show beamed into hundreds of millions of living…
What would baby Jesus do?
My recent book, The Blogging Revolution, discusses the role of internet censorship in so-called “repressive” regimes. I wrote an article for the Melbourne Age last November detailing the various reasons why Australia’s current plans to implement an online censorship program was practically, morally and ethically suspect. Now, early in 2009, supporters of this scheme are…
This is what we think of you
Bloggers in Gaza are gathering information about what happened during the recent Israeli attacks. In this update, we hear from families whose homes were looted and left covered with faeces by Israeli soldiers, learn what the effects of DIME weapons are, and are told the story of a father whose baby daughter was shot, his…