My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: The international outcry over China’s human rights abuses was temporarily disrupted this week with news from Beijing that the regime was determined to manage the city’s pollution problems by halting building construction after July for two months. Unfortunately, many…
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How may we help your despotic tendencies?
Yet more evidence that Google’s YouTube is happily censoring videos to keep authoritarian governments happy. Thailand, welcome to your new reality.
The liberal blogosphere conspiracy
Steve Benen, the liberal blogger who runs The Carpetbagger Report, has recently been discovered to be the sole author of almost every liberal blog dealing with U.S. politics on the internet, blog readers recently discovered.
Silencing the occupied
While the Chinese people are mainly hostile to the Tibetan cause and nationalism is thriving, some savvy tech-heads are causing chaos: Several websites running pro-Tibet campaigns have been targeted by internet criminals, it has been claimed. Experts at ScanSafe, an internet security firm, said that two popular websites – SaveTibet.org and FreeTibet.org – have been…
The benefits of a multinational
Google technology first envisaged as a video game backdrop has been adapted to raise awareness – and potentially financial support – for the plight of refugees and vulnerable people once far from the public eye. The search engine’s Google Earth platform, a mapping service that allows users to move through three-dimensional satellite images of city…
The torch, boycotts and Tibet
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: The Beijing Games is shaping up as a public relations disaster for the Chinese Communist Party. Four months from the opening ceremony and global protests against the torch relay are gathering speed. Tibetan activists are successfully highlighting their cause…
Freedom stillborn on the island
Cuba’s Long Black Spring. A special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.