Where There’s Smoke, China’s ‘Great Firewall’ Douses the Fire
Reading Time: 8 minutes Posting about sensitive topics on social media is a risky business.
Who Should Censor Online Speech?
Reading Time: 18 minutes David Kaye, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, distils the global challenges of our most consequential free-speech issue.
The Internet Is Killing Democracy
Reading Time: 13 minutes Jamie Bartlett, whose TED Talk about the “dark web” has been viewed by over two million people, explains how democracy and technology may be incompatible.
Trump Administration Determined to Kill Net Neutrality
Reading Time: 2 minutes The FCC seems hell-bent on gutting net neutrality and giving broadband providers the power to regulate the Internet — even at the cost of ignoring identity theft.
FCC Turns Itself into a Deregulatory Agency
Reading Time: 2 minutes On May 18, the FCC quietly voted to propose new rules governing Internet service providers. The intent is to appeal net neutrality regulations enacted under the Obama administration.
RadioWhoWhatWhy: Push-Button Warfare
Reading Time: < 1 minute As countries launch cyber attacks on each other constantly, online soldiers are becoming increasingly important to militaries around the world.
WHYTV — Russ on NSA Surveillance
Reading Time: < 1 minute RT Television interviews WhoWhatWhy editor-in-chief about breaking news on NSA internet surveillance.
Barrett Brown Update: New Defense Team, Feds Fish For Activists
Reading Time: 8 minutes Some sinister—and some intriguing—new developments in the prosecution (persecution?) of Barrett Brown.
The Saga of Barrett Brown: Inside Anonymous and the War on Secrecy
Reading Time: 27 minutes A magazine-length, must-read story of hackers, leakers, democracy advocates, spies, cops, banks, lobbyists, WikiLeaks, the future of the Internet…and quite possibly of our democracy.
So Pa, So Good…But Must Activists Always Align With Corporations to Win?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s possible to get Congress to spin on a dime—but only a corporate dime. An alliance between tech companies and activists seems to have scared off, at least temporarily, a threat of ‘net censorship. But how do we get elected officials to do the right thing when corporate entities aren’t on the public side?