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Calling the Troops to Battle: EFF’s Say No To Censorship Campaign

Dec 10, 2010

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in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

‘THE net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.’ This quote from John Gilmore, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, often appears on the Internet. It reflects its users’ confidence that their electronic world, designed to resist nuclear attack, can also shrug off government regulation. By nature of its global reach and…

Iran, censorship, social networks — and hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives

Jun 18, 2009

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“I think the filters and the restrictions have been going on for so long in Iran that the experienced people are already prepared for this,” said Jon Pincus, a former Microsoft project manager and digital activist who works on projects promoting online freedom. Iranians dodging internet censorship , Doug Gross,Â CNN The OpenNet Initiative’s Cracking down…

Coverage for ‘How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech’

Feb 24, 2008

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in political, Professional, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net

The two-part series I posted on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki is starting to get some coverage. Shai Sachs has an excellent piece on MyDD: There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Facebook “censorship” of free speech. The Blackadder One case I wrote about a couple weeks ago was just an…

Facebook: censoring political speech

Feb 19, 2008

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in political, Professional, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net

Update on February 22: How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech is up on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki and links back to comments in this thread. Alas, the Facebook Barack Obama discussion board was deleted on February 20, so many of the links here go off to oblivion. If…

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Calling the Troops to Battle: EFF’s Say No To Censorship Campaign

Iran, censorship, social networks — and hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives

Coverage for ‘How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech’

Facebook: censoring political speech