Wikileaks has released the secret internet censorship lists of Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT). The list was obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand. The 1,203 newly blocked websites are located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy,…
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That was the year that was
Literary Minded, Australia’s finest literary blog, has published its Literature that Rocked My World in 2008 list. My book, The Blogging Revolution, features: An eye-opener.… A well-written, personalised nonfiction book that is essential… to our era. Should be read by young and old. See my extensive interview with Antony.
The futility of filtering
When the Chinese regime learn that censorship will never stop the flow of “subversive” information? Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had recently imposed on the Web sites of other media outlets.
A leader in repression?
Australia continues to pursue a plan to censor the internet. It is almost guaranteed to fail, for practical and ethical reasons. I was interviewed recently by the Knight Pulse project in the US about my thoughts. It’s worth reading the whole article, but my comment was: The Australian government’s plans to filter the Internet is…
Regaining the upper hand?
Yahoo threw down the gauntlet to bitter rivals Google and Microsoft yesterday by cutting the length of time that it retains information about what its users are doing online. It will now keep information about online searches for only 90 days – down from 13 months – before ‘anonymising’ the data by getting rid of…
Engineering brains
On the internet, how do you find stuff that you don’t know you’re looking for? That’s online serendipity.
A dark turn backwards
Is the Islamic Republic about to establish an internet court to filter websites and blogs?
Harvard Law School
Following my recent talk at Harvard University’s Berkman Centre on my book The Blogging Revolution, the Law School has just published a report on the event.
Who selects what we read?
Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It’s a historic statement – and nobody has yet grasped its significance.