Internet censorship is a growing problem around the world (the subject of my forthcoming book, The Blogging Revolution and an equally relevant issue in the West, such as France.) Now Google supposedly wants to help in the struggle: In an effort to identify traffic discrimination by American ISPs, Google is prepping a suite of network…
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Tick-tock old media
Just another dagger in the heart of the print press: The internet has ten times the influence of traditional print media on the average consumer, according to a study by Fleishman-Hillard. The global agency interviewed 5,000 internet users in the UK, Germany and France for its Digital Influence research, published today. The internet trumps newspapers…
Is Google our future?
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on his company’s philosophy: The goal of the company is not to monetize anything. The goal is to change the world – and monetization is a technique to do that. Changing the world, one censoring step at a time.
The disaster that opened the door
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: Once small freedoms are granted in China, they are not easily reversed, writes Antony Loewenstein The Sichuan earthquake may have largely fallen off the Western media’s radar but the Chinese people remain focused on the disaster. A number of…
Blocking futility
Thousands of Syrian web-users continue to avoid the country’s draconian internet censorship restrictions that has left countless websites blocked.
How we deal with dictators
The essential website Wikileaks releases yet another coup: During the 2007 Presidential election campaigns in Kenya, an international furore developed around the existence of a “secret” Memorandum of Understanding signed by Raila Odinga (now Prime Minister of Kenya) and the National Muslim Leaders’ Forum. A forged version of this Memorandum of Understanding was in email…
Being Jewish in Iran
Iranian anti-Semitic Bloggers: From Mickey Mouse’s Plot to Gaddafi’s Jewishness.
We still want depth
How to support investigative journalism and international reporting in the age of the internet.
Goodbye print, hello new world
Rue89.com is a French online publication that proves new media can survive and thrive without print. The Guardian explains: The site does not use citizen journalism, rather a hybrid “pro-am” model – professionals and amateurs working together. The motto is “information with three voices, journalists, experts and readers, working together in the news-gathering process,” [founder…