Just what is the real relationship between Google’s YouTube and the notoriously anti-Arab US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL)?
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Dictators should worry
The spread of information on the Internet has given the world a new tool to forestall conflicts, Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said Sunday. In his Nobel lecture to the Swedish Academy, the 68-year-old Frenchman said an earlier introduction of information technology could even have prevented World War II. “Who knows, if…
Learning from the Chinese?
Cuba’s regime still refuses to understand that censoring the internet and bloggers just makes it look petty and dictatorial. After all, the days of the “revolution” are coming to an end.
The images that move us all
I gave a presentation at the wonderful New York-based NGO Witness this week. The organisation improves human rights through the global use and distribution of video cameras to document abuses and events. I was asked to talk about my new book, The Blogging Revolution, and the ways in which new technology is rapidly shifting the…
Refusing the hand of a menace
Leading Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas, who features in my book The Blogging Revolution, recently refused a meeting with outgoing US President George W. Bush: I owe Bush nothing and he owes me nothing and even if he has something that I might want, I no longer want it. I am inherently against any American involvement…
The Blogging Revolution: a look at the repression of online journalism around the world
Democracy Now! is the world’s finest independent news service, based in New York and known for its fearless investigations of the major issues of the day (and many ignored by the corporate media.) I was interviewed live on their TV/radio program in the studio this morning about my book, The Blogging Revolution: JUAN GONZALEZ: A…
Trying to silence the bloggers
Repressive regimes continue to work their magic: Reflecting the rising influence of online reporting and commentary, more Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium. In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, released today, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are…
Being afraid of the blog
A curious story about the power of the web, Iranian/American relations and the inability of officialdom to silence alternative voices (via the Boston Globe): U.S. officials took it as a quiet sign of good will: In October, the Iranian government gave permission to Iranian bloggers to travel to the United States to write about its…
The MSM need to make more room
Following the carnage in Mumbai, the use of new technology was central to our understanding of the event. After my recent talk at Harvard University’s Berkman Centre, in which I discussed the growing role of alternative news sources to challenge the increasingly myopic and desperately under-resourced mainstream media, a blogger at Harvard’s Law School continues…