In August 2020, Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist whom the Wall Street Journal calls “the man Vladimir Putin fears most”, was medically evacuated to Berlin after being poisoned by a nerve agent that was linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service. He returned to Russia in January 2021 and was arrested…
Claiming there is “a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas,” Texas Governor Jim Abbott (R) signed H.B. 20 (An Act relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages). The Act is strictly an act of…
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web Foundation are using the 30th birthday of the web to not only celebrate this milestone but also to create a live crowd-sourced history of the web and to call for a New Contract for the Web. The Web’s 30th Birthday Party Berners-Lee will mark…
Today I received the letter below from David Warrington of LeClair Ryan on behalf of Xcentric Ventures LLC, which operates RipoffReport.com. According to Warrington, RipoffReport is in the pre-complaint stage of a claim based on alleged anti-competitive busines practices and a conspiracy to damage the business of Xcenetric in its operations of the RipoffReport.com website…
World Day Against Cyber-Censorship – 2017 This is a day of observance spearheaded by Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International in 2008. For this year’s World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued a report entitled “Censorship and surveillance of journalists: an unscrupulous business.” The report condemns the readiness with which leading Internet companies submit to…
In Twitter and the Birth of “Women Spring” in Saudi Arabia, we outlined how social media has been a tool for women to seek basic freedoms. This is not without risks, as the Saudi regime has jailed, flogged and even ordered the crucifixion for those offending it on social media. Now, women have launched a social…
The plight of women in Saudi Arabia is among the worst in the world, as the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Saudi Arabia 134th out of 145 countries for gender parity. From Wikipedia: According to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights, two “key” conservative Islamic “concepts” that curtail women’s rights in Saudi are sex…
Source: Thai Mechanic Faces 37 Years For “Liking” Spoof Photo Of King’s Dog
Freedom House Report Finds Internet Freedom Continues to Decline Freedom House released its Freedom of the Net 2015 report, finding that “internet freedom around the world in decline for a fifth consecutive year as more governments censored information of public interest while also expanding surveillance and cracking down on privacy tools.” Among its key findings were…
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Internet freedom has declined around the globe, once again, in 2014. A new report out from Freedom House shows that 36 of the 65 countries evaluated showed a negative trajectory since May 2013, with Russia, Turkey and the Ukraine facing the biggest downturn in internet freedom. Iran, China and Syria (the…
Vietnam: “Empire Strikes Back” With Blogger Censorship Law Vietnam, which recently ranked 172nd out of 179 countries in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index has implemented a new law which bans the sharing of news information on blogs sparking protests and global condemnation. The Vietnamese government view is that blogs instead should be only used…
SEGMENT 2: REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS DC DIRECTOR DELPHINE HALGAND Podcast: Play in new window | Download (50.5MB) 1. New Report List 5 Companies as Enemies of the Internet On March 12th, the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org/en. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that…
Reporters Without Borders released its 2013 Press Freedom Index. The Nordic countries have again demonstrated their ability to maintain an optimal environment for news providers. Finland (1st, 0), Netherlands (2nd, +1) and Norway (3rd, -2) have held on to the first three places. Canada (20th, -10) only just avoided dropping out of the top 20.…
Segment 1: David Sandel and the Gigabit City Challenge Segment 2: Sarah McKune on Planet Blue Coat, Internet Censorship and Dual Purpose Technology David Sandel President – Sandel & Associates Founder Gigabit City Summit David is an accomplished Gigabit City executive focused on leadership, planning and the successful execution of Gigabit Community or Smart City…
What is Blue Coat? Who Else is in the Club? In 2012, the Pakistani government kicked a cyber hornet’s nest when it put out the following RFP: Pakistani ISPs and backbone providers have expressed their inability to block millions of undesirable websites using current manual blocking systems, [and as a result] a national URL filtering and…
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