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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…
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✴︎ blogIrrepressible.Info Amnesty International
I will be participating in Amnesty International’s Irrepressible.info one year anniversary conference, the details for which can be found here. We at the OpenNet Initiative have been providing background information and data for the campaign. Here is a Guardian/Observer story on the upcoming event, and the way in which the campaign has had an impact…
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✴︎ blogONI Oxford Conference — Media Coverage
The first ONI woodstock is over. I had a very productive time, and particularly enjoyed the debate at the Oxford Union. Here are a few selected media stories about the ONI’s reports: International Herald Tribue Sci-Tech Today National Post archived here locally CityTV …and here is a separate news item in the Guardian UK on…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Conference May 18th 2007 Oxford
The OpenNet Initiative is holding its first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide. The conference will be hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and held at the University of Oxford on May 18, 2007. The conference is free of charge and open to the public. Results from the…