Posted in Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egypt, Free Kareem, Free speech, Kareem on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Committee to Protect Bloggers and FreeKareem are doing an analogue letter-writing campaign for Kareem, the imprisoned Egyptian blogger. Read about Flood the Jail with Mail.
Listen to Esra’a and I on PRI’s The World radio show. (Clicking will launch the player.)
Posted in Burma, Censorship, Free Burma, Free speech, Threatened bloggers on October 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Blogging, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Free speech, Human rights, Threatened bloggers on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Because I is a idiot, I was considering reawakening the beast that is, or rather was, the Committee to Protect Bloggers. To do this, I need a free blog host. OK, they’re common enough. But since my techno-eyes are always bigger than my techno-stomach, I need a host that would also be available for constant [...]
Posted in Corporate censorship, Free speech, Human rights on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
YouTube is assisting the Thai government in censoring its product. (Via SplashCast blog.) Its corporate overlord, Google, is already doing the same for the Chinese government.
It didn’t take long for YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley to trot out the Chamberlainesque excuse pioneered by Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, “At the end of the day we want to always [...]
Posted in Egypt, Free Kareem, Free speech, Jailed bloggers on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Esra’a told me (posted here) that all the sites associated with Free Kareem.org, to get Kareem Amer out of Egyptian jail where he’s been put due to critical comments on his blog, have been hacked. The main site’s back up but they’re still recovering data and the feeds don’t work.
I wonder who did the hack? [...]
Posted in America, Egypt, Entrepreneurship, France, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Social media on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Parisian wigglers at a bar in the Bastille, by S.
Dear Loic:
We don’t know each other well, having done nothing more than exchange a few emails over the years. But one of the benefits of being a participant in the wide world of social media is a shamelessness and a willingness to dialogue publicly, qualities [...]
Posted in Filtering, Free speech on May 22, 2007 | No Comments »
According to an article on the BBC news site, governmental increase in Internet filtering (structural censorship) has increased markedly.
“In five years we have gone from a couple of states doing state-mandated net filtering to 25,” said John Palfrey, at Harvard Law School.
Drawing on studies by the OpenNet Initiative, the article publishes the following list of [...]
Posted in China, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egypt, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Journalism, Threatened bloggers, Yahoo on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Two awful stories prove that things are still bad for bloggers in oppressive countries. First, Yahoo. (And really, how could it not start with Yahoo?)
Speaking with VOA’s Mandarin Service Wednesday after arriving in Washington, Yu Ling said Chinese police arrested her husband, Wang Xiaoning, partly because Yahoo’s Hong Kong office gave Chinese authorities information about [...]
Posted in Egypt, Free speech, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers on February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman has been sentenced to four years in an Egyptian prison, three for “insulting Islam” and one for insulting Mubarak. Hey, remember when “Egypt” used to be synonymous with “civilization”? Yeah, me neither.
Committee to Protect Bloggers supported Kareem when he was first imprisoned, then freed by the Egyptian authorities, even creating a petition [...]
Posted in Blogging, Free speech, Journalism on May 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Via Media Bloggers Association:
In what the EFF called a “major victory” for bloggers and citizen journalists, The Sixth Appellate Court of the Court of Appeal of the State of California rejected Apple Computer’s attempt to force disclosure of sources by two blogs (AppleInsider and PowerPage.org) by ruling that bloggers and citizen journalists are entitled to [...]
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