RIP: The Committee to Protect Bloggers(?)
The Committee to Protect Bloggers is shutting down! Can anyone help?
If you are an individual or a company with sufficient funds to sponsor the Committee’s activities for a year, please contact committeetoprotectbloggers(at)gmail(dot)com.
Website: http://committeetoprotectbloggers.civiblog.org/
The CPB has long been (um, in internet terms, I mean, that being all of 2005) a great resource for finding information about [...]
Study Says Software Makers Supply Tools to Censor Web
The misuse of good technology. Or perhaps just the use of bad technology.
Study Says Software Makers Supply Tools to Censor Web: “A new report raises questions about the use of filtering technologies by autocratic governments bent on controlling what their citizens see on the Web.”
(Via NYT > Technology.)
Blogger Handbook Chat
As a follow up to the previous post (see just below this one) please be ‘ware that Global Voices is hosting an online (IRC) discussion of the handbook on Tuesday at 15:00 GMT (that’s 11:00 AM, New York time).
New to IRC chatting? It’s simple. Here’s instructions from the ground up:
1. Download & install an [...]
The “Dissident” Blogger Handbook
Reporters Without Borders has today released a wonderful handbook of international blogging. The 84-page guide includes sections that discuss the basics of blogs and blogging terminology, and it moves quickly into a serious how-to guide for blogging anonymously and blogging successfully. This is a first for the international blogging community, and I am certain that [...]
Yahoo Participates in Chinese Censorship
Recently, the mega search engine Yahoo! collaborated with Chinese authorities in jailing Chinese journalist Shi Tao for allegedly distributing state secrets. Apparently Yahoo has taken the initiative to provide the journalist’s email address and IP address in order to link him to posts and emails that he was making while distributing information. Why is Yahoo [...]
An Authoritarian “Third Way” on the Internet
There’s an old dream held by certain Englishmen of the Enlightenment: the perfect prison, the panopticon. In the panopticon, every cell can be seen into by a single guard standing in the center tower. But the prisoners can’t see into the guard tower. The prisoners begin to monitor themselves; they must assume that they are [...]