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César Albarrán Torres

In Indonesia, the Internet Emerges as a (Too?) Powerful Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...20indonet.html

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shared by César Albarrán Torres on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Displeased that a statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama was installed in a park here, Indonesians took their protest not to this capital’s most famous traffic circle but to Facebook. More than 56,000 online protesters later, city officials gave in to arguments that the park should be reserved to honor an Indonesian.
  • But the boom is prompting a fierce debate over the limits of free expression in a newly democratic Indonesia, with the government trying to regulate content on the Internet and a recently emboldened news media pushing back.
  • Skeptics, especially among politicians and religious leaders, worry about mob rule and the loss of traditional values.
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  • Thanks to relatively cheap cellphones that offer Internet access, Facebook, Twitter and local social networking media have rapidly spread from cities to villages throughout Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia and the Philippines
  • In another cause célèbre, online support was critical in freeing a 32-year-old mother who was jailed after complaining about the poor service at a suburban Jakarta hospital.
  • According to data from Facebook, Indonesia trails only the United States, with 116 million users, and Britain, with 24 million.
  • “I think we are between China and the United States,” he said. “Yes, we are free. But with freedom comes responsibility.”
  • César Albarrán Torres on 20 Apr 10
     
    Good article on the social and political uses of social media (sic.) in Indonesia. There have been attempts to filter/censor content, but so far they have been avoided. Uses of Twitter, Facebook by politicians is also described. 
Djordje Veselinovic

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ensource-intellectual-property

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shared by Djordje Veselinovic on 16 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Djordje Veselinovic on 16 Mar 10
     
    This is a blog posting discussing the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) which recently added Indonesia, Brazil and India to its 'Special 301 Watchlist' which marks nations as a threat to intellectual property for encouraging their government departments and companies to use open source software
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