Wikileaks reveals the reality of web life under Thailand’s former military rulers: The January 11, 2007 official blocklist contains 13,435 websites, an increase of more than 500% over the 2,475 sites blocked by MICT’s 13 October 2006 list, compiled following Thailand’s military coup d’etat on 19 September. In addition to this figure, the Royal Thai…
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Where to get our news?
The mainstream media, the internet and blogs being parasitic. Where to from here? A discussion.
Website = profit
In the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John’s International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering – more than $1 billion to be exact.
Is Iran next?
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed: The fifth anniversary in March of the Iraq war should have given the political and media elite time to reflect on their actions since 2003. Virtually ignored by the mainstream media were stories such as life in Fallujah, where citizens remain mired in poverty and resentment. Despite…
Users beware
The war against bloggers continues: A prominent Malaysian blogger was charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly implying the deputy prime minister was involved in the sensational killing of a young Mongolian woman. Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, who has not denied that he linked Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak to the slaying, pleaded innocent to the…
Just what can a multinational do?
First Google willingly signs up to assist the Chinese regime to censor the internet. Now, it’s possibly breached national security: China is to investigate Google and other websites for allegedly breaching state secrecy laws and showing “illegal” maps of the country. According to Min Yiren, vice head of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping,…
Reflections on China
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: There are small signs that Chinese nationalism is being tempered by more thoughtful analysis of the motherland, writes Antony Loewenstein. The Olympic torch relay has arrived in China. Unsurprisingly, the route in North Korea was protest-free. Away from the…
This is what US “freedom” looks like
Iranian blogger Omid Memarian, currently living in California, explains to his readers the apparent appeal of the current presidential race: Many Iranians are obsessed with Barack Obama. If he goes to Iran, I’m sure he could fill Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, which has a capacity of 100,000. To a large extent this is because of the…