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in title, tags, annotations or urlTunisia : Blogger, Global Voices contributor, Slim Amamou arrested today - Global Voices Advocacy - 0 views
Why the Internet Is a Great Tool for Totalitarians | Magazine - 0 views
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Modern communications technologies are already being deployed as new forms of repression.
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not all blogs are revolutionary. China, Iran, and Russia all have bloggers who are more authoritarian in their views than their governments are. Some of these governments are even beginning to follow the path laid by Western corporations, actively deploying regime-friendly bloggers to spread talking points. Is this “samizdat”? Cold War baggage, in short, severely limits the imagination of do-gooders in the West. They assume that the Internet is too big to control without significant economic losses. But governments don’t need to control every text message or email. There’s a special irony when Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggests—as he did in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations last November—that China’s government will find it impossible to censor “a billion phones that are trying to express themselves.” Schmidt is rich because his company sells precisely targeted ads against hundreds of millions of search requests per day. If Google can zero in like that, so can China’s censors.
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modern authoritarian governments control the web in ways more sophisticated than guard towers
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Blogger Yassine Ayari Sentenced to Six Months for Facebook Post - Tunisia Live - 0 views
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Ayari was convicted under Articles 50 and 51 of Decree 115 of the post-revolutionary press code issued in February 2011 under former interim Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi
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Both Ben Amor and his client believe the law cannot be applied to Ayari’s case. “I’m not a journalist,”
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The court considered Facebook, he said, as a means of media communication, while Ben Amor said it actually a means of social communication
Egypt's critics have a voice, but never the last word - International Herald Tribune - 1 views
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For some reason, as yet unexplained, blogging seems to cross the line from speaking to acting.
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Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, a young blogger sentenced to four years in prison for criticizing President Hosni Mubarak and the state's religious institutions.
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"For a second, after the judge said I should be freed, I thought there really were laws in this country,"
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One World Media :: One World Media Week - 1 views
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RT@Tahrir_Square: Social Media Lessons for Development from the #Arab Spring 6.30-8pm Overseas Development Institute 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD Three months on from the dramatic events in Egypt, ODI and One World Media bring together an expert panel to explore what changes to the media landscape in developing countries could mean for the future of development. Social media opens up new possibilities for getting around restrictive media laws, disseminating information and mobilising political movements. More established forms of media will also continue to empower citizens and encourage accountability. Access to technology is giving millions of people a chance to communicate beyond long established boundaries, but what will this mean for the role of media in developing societies? Chair Bettina Peters, Director, Global Forum For Media Development Panel James Deane, Head of Policy, BBC World Service Trust Mark Harvey, Executive Director, Internews Europe Ian Douglas, Technology Writer, The Telegraph Jonathan Glennie, Research Fellow,ODI and blogger, Guardian Development
Iran: A nation of bloggers on Vimeo - 1 views
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Found via http://arabist.net/arabawy/2009/02/13/iran-a-nation-of-bloggers/
A year of blogging, threats and silence - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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statistics compiled by tireless groups such as Global Voices, Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists suggest 2011 to be among the worst years yet for online free expression, marred by the persecution of bloggers and social media users in a number of states
Media, Old and New at 3arabawy - 0 views
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The number of those who have cyberaccess in Egypt, according to a 2008 government report, reached 9.17 million citizens, out of roughly 80 millions. This is a huge leap from the only 650,000 users we had in 2000. Still, this is a minority in the present time. But just like its Indian counterpart, the Egyptian mainstream media is obssessed with what goes on in the blogosphere. Local media outlets–whether they are Independent, opposition, governement owned, or privately run–regularly monitor blogs, facebook groups, web forums, and report on what goes on for their newspapers, TV and radio stations. Journalists are also hooking themselves up to Twitter and Jaiku to follow what the activists are tweeting and texting about. Many bloggers are also journalists, who have access to the mainstream media and can push for their stories and campaigns to get wider coverage. Of course this means we get on occasions tons of bullshit, negative and sensationalist reporting, but in all cases if a story now goes on some blog, or you launch a campaign on some website, you are more or less assured this will be picked up by journalists in the mainstream media who still have a wider audience than internet browsers.
Iranian Blogger Dies in Prison - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Free Philip Rizk | الحرية لفيليب رزق - 0 views
كشف Kashf: Iraqi Female Blogger is detained مدونة عراقية محتجزة منذ ١٠ أيام بسبب كتاباتها - 0 views
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