My following article appeared in yesterday’s edition of Crikey: 64 people have been arrested for blogging their views since 2003, according to… a recent… University of Washington report. Three times as many people were arrested for blogging about political issues in 2007 than the year before. More than half of all the arrests since 2003 were made…
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Real-time apology
The new face of American justice? Two Florida teenagers who threw a drink in a drive-thru worker’s face have been forced by a judge to post an apology on YouTube. But will the punishment work?
(Virtually) nothing is hidden
Using the internet to highlight a repressive regime. Tunisia, you’re being watched:
The world inside the box
The magic of television, courtesy of the internet. Speaking of which: The Internet is simply a means of communication, like the telephone, but that has not prevented attempts to demonize it — the latest being the ludicrous claim that the Internet promotes terrorism. Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut is trying to pressure YouTube to pull…
Talking past the gate-keepers
YouTube announces a Citizen News channel, specifically designed to bolster the already-growing online community of citizen journalists reporting from the far corners of the globe. Professional reporters need not apply:
Kill your TV
Media usage may be fragmenting but traditional mediums remain (far too) powerful: Americans — including “young people” — still get their political news from TV, according to a new study published by TV trade pub Broadcasting & Cable, and conducted by market-research firm Crawford, Johnson & Northcott, whose clients include… several TV stations. According to…
How may we help your despotic tendencies?
Yet more evidence that Google’s YouTube is happily censoring videos to keep authoritarian governments happy. Thailand, welcome to your new reality.
Dirty work comes cheap
The OpenNet Initative recently reported the following disturbing development in relation to Google: YouTomb, a project of the MIT Free Culture group that studies takedown notices by the video-sharing website YouTube, has identified a mechanism used by Google to restrict video content in specific countries. This appears to be the method YouTube is using to…
Assisting repression
Following allegations that Western web majors such as Yahoo and Microsoft were assisting the Chinese regime in finding Tibetans after the recent violence, Yahoo has denied the allegations: “Contrary to media reports, Yahoo! Inc. is not displaying images on its web sites of individuals wanted by Chinese authorities in connection with the recent unrest in…