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✴︎ blogMyanmar's Net Curtain Begins To Lift
From Forbes.com According to Ron Deibert, director at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and an investigator at the OpenNet Initiative. “Now that the government’s crackdown has succeeded, they’re beginning to let information trickle out again,” he says. Deibert speculates that even for a country as repressive as Myanmar, the cost of shutting off all…
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✴︎ blogBurma and the Internet – some recent news items
I have done some recent interviews about Burma and the role the Internet is playing in getthing the message out, including attempts by the government to shut it down. Two CBC radio interviews that I did with Eli Glasner, slightly different, can be found here and here. There is also a New York Times report…
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✴︎ blogBBC Getting Information out of Burma
I did an interview with Clark Boyd about Burma here The reclusive military regime in Burma — or Myanmar — can’t stop the news of protests there from spreading around the world. Information technology like the Internet and cell phones are helping Burmese pro-democracy activists get the word out. That wasn’t the case in 1988…
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✴︎ blogpsiphon story on Al Jazeera's Listening Post (December 2006 air date)
Al Jazeera International has a great show called Listening Post hosted by Richard Gizbert. I wish we were able to see this show in Canada! Last December 2006, the Listening Post did a feature story on psiphon around the time of its public release. Thanks to the kind folks at the Listening Post we were…
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✴︎ blogTech-Savvy Students for a Free Tibet
Globe and Mail, August, 2008 The group of pro-Tibet activists in China that caught the world’s attention this week by chronicling a series of stunts over the web used an “age-old tactic” with a savvy, modern twist, says an expert in the field. From GlobeandMail
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✴︎ blogCBC Dispatches Interview
CBC Dispatches invited me back to discuss Internet censorship, the state of blogging in the Middle East, and psiphon. The interview can be found HERE.
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✴︎ blogPsiphon Pstops Pcensorship
Published in NOW Magazine July 12 – 18, 2007 Toronto-developed software opens the Net to restricted surfers By DAVID SILVERBERG In Saudi Arabia, net users can’t get access to websites of opposition groups. Jordan and Bahrain both briefly banned Google Earth, citing security concerns. The Chinese government doesn’t let netizens get to the BBC site…
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✴︎ blogAmnesty International Conference "Some People think the Internet is a Bad Thing"
Yesterday was the Amnesty International conference. I enjoyed the discussions, which ranged far and wide. You can see the archived webcast here. CBC had a pretty good report on it. One correction, however: I never said we tested 41 countries in 2002.
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✴︎ blogRadio Free Europe
June 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) – State censorship of the Internet is growing and the techniques used are becoming increasingly sophisticated, according to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a partnership of British, US, and Canadian universities. The group has released an initial list of countries engaged in Internet censorship, which includes China, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. The…
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✴︎ blogAmnesty International Event/Open Democracy
Amnesty international is having an event on Wednesday June 6th in the UK that I’m speaking at by webcast. The event is called “irrepressible.info” and is about threats to freedom of speech and access to information online. You can read more about it here Leading up to the event, I wrote an editorial comment that…