Mideast Youth is an essential Bahrain-based portal for news, views and activism about online freedom in the Muslim world. I was interviewed this week about my book, The Blogging Revolution, and what online players can do to highlight ever-tightening censorship.
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Standing up to growing intrusion
The Global Network Initiative is a new idea designed to tackle the growing issue of censorship: From the Americas to Europe to the Middle East to Africa and Asia, companies in the information and communications industries face increasing government pressure to comply with domestic laws and policies that require censorship and disclosure of personal information…
A fragmented Islam
How is blogging affecting the narrative and public image of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
Pakistan from the inside
New, interesting voices in the blogosphere should be celebrated. Danielle Ali Shah is an “Australian living in Rawalpindi, Pakistan with my husband, three children and extended family.” A recent post, “Digging through the land in the land of the pure“, discusses the rawness of life in Pakistan.
How to stay ahead of the news
Is blogging dead? (asks a bemused BBC writer.) Of course it’s not; it’s simply adapting to new frontiers. Journalism is being forced to better report the news and not rely on the outdated language of producing an article. The solution? I agree with Jeff Jarvis, writing in the Guardian, who advocates for a more inclusive…
Jihadists have fun online
Those feisty terrorists dare to use new technology to further their aims? Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.
You can’t stop the debate
How to censor online speech one step at a time: A Turkish court has blocked access to the popular blog hosting service Blogger (Blogger.com and Blogspot.com owned by Google), since Friday, October 24th, 2008. According to BasBasBas.com, a Dutch blogger based in Istanbul, who alerted us to the issue: It is suspected that the reason…
Hearing both voices
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is holding. A blogger in Gaza reflects on his tough situation and his friend in Sderot explains how life has marginally improved for him. This is just one example of what the blogosphere can achieve; better cross-cultural understanding.
Big Brother grows up
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chinese government’s latest measure to reinforce surveillance of Internet café users, who will henceforth have to have their mugshot taken and their ID card swiped by a Customer Registration Device to be installed in all of Beijing’s estimated 1,500 Internet cafés by the end of the year.