[liberationtech] NEWS: This Week in Online Tyranny

[Douglas Schuler]

Thanks for pointing this out, Yosem.  It's useful to be reminded that  
the Internet didn't make all of the age-old problems facing  
journalists (Internet and otherwise) go away.  The British periodical  
"Index on Censorship" does a great job of reporting on this.  See http://www.indexoncensorship.org/magazine/current-edition/

BTW, this general phenomenon and some approaches to dealing with it  
are discussed in the pattern "Alternative Media in Hostile  
Environments" (http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/print-pattern.php?begin=53 
) in the Liberating Voices book that I developed (with LOTS of help).

-- Doug


Douglas Schuler
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On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:

> This Week in Online Tyranny
> Written by Curt Hopkins, ReadWriteWeb / April 1, 2010 7:00 PM
>
> Have you become the Mayor of Buttita Plaza Pawn on Foursquare? Or  
> the Archbishop of Myung Dong Tofu Cabin, or the...Deputy Sheriff of  
> the Twilight Bowl? Yay for you! Meanwhile, bloggers in Morocco and  
> Vietnam have become the Governor of Prison and the Water  
> Commissioner of the Interrogation Room.
>
> Feel bad? I'm not going to tell you you shouldn't. All this  
> technology we use and write about and enthuse on has higher stakes  
> than we think. Here are some of them.
>
> Moroccan blogger Abdellatif Ouaiss arrested. Ouaiss was arrested  
> Sunday for "an article published in his English-language blog in  
> which he criticized the ten-year rule of King Mohammed VI" according  
> to Rihab Alhoria.
>
> Vietnamese human rights lawyer and blogger Le Thi Cong Nhan  
> rearrested. In the middle of March, only three days after Le Thi  
> Cong Nhan was released from prison after a three year sentence, she  
> was arrested again. "Police took her to a Hanoi police station for  
> allegedly violating the terms of the supplementary sentence of three  
> years of house arrest that she is now supposed to serve," according  
> to From The Old, which has more information.
>
> Germany blocks content country-wide, imitates China and Iran.  
> Germany, according to theOpenNetInitiative, has instituted "block  
> lists." What starts with porn ends with you shutting the hell up.  
> (What was that thing about the lessons of history? Ah, whatever.  
> Let's dance! Ganz toll!)
>
> Google gets hacked in China. Intermittent hacking and other  
> mysterious interference slows, and in some places, blocks Google.  
> Google stammered in response. More from ReadWriteWeb.
>
> Yahoo gets hacked. In China. Over a dozen Yahoo email accounts  
> belonging to foreign journalists, activists and analysts in China  
> were hacked. Effectively, the email accounts were shut down. More  
> from ReadWriteWeb.
>
> Still. Iranian blogger Hessam Firouzi's still in prison. Egyptian  
> blogger Kareem Amer is still in prison. Omid Reza Mir Sayafi  
> (murdered March 18, 2009) is still dead.
>
> Top photo by Adrian Van Leen
> End photo by FreeKareem.org
>
> The author was a co-founder of the March 18 Movement.
>
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