January 2010
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Global Internet Freedom Consortium
Our Vision
Just as the Berlin Wall once fell when the East Germans came together and demanded their freedom, we, too, will give those living in closed societies the technology to take down the Great Firewall that separates them from the rest of the world.
Today, the Internet is what connects all of us around the world. We can chat with someone thousands of miles away in an instant. We can send...
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein
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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu's Remarks... →
“China’s Constitution guarantees people’s freedom of speech.” …really? Then why do the government still censor the internet there? Seems like a little bit of a contradiction to me.
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Hillary on Net Freedom: Tear Down This Firewall →
Clinton’s speech, in many ways, was a 21st-century remix of an Cold War theme, comparing internet censorship in countries like China, Uzbekistan and Vietnam to Soviet-style restrictions on press freedom. In the most direct analogy, she described web 2.0 tools like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter as the “samizdat of our day.”
**more Interwebs censorship… silly silly people!
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“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
– Albert Einstein
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via littlemiss)
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Internet filter protesters set to fade websites to... →
AUSTRALIA Day won’t just be celebrated with the usual barbecues, pool parties and the Triple J Hottest 100 this year.
A throng of Australian websites will mark the event by fading to black as part of a week-long, national protest against the Federal Government’s proposed internet filter. More than 150 website owners have joined The Great Australian Internet Blackout so far, and...
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Really...? What a joke! →
“Adults aged over 18 seeking to buy or borrow a copy of Mad Max, the acclaimed desert war drama Three Kings, starring George Clooney, the Brad Pitt classic Fight Club or the 2009 Blu Ray release of Sasha Baron Cohen’s fashion parody Bruno will now find them in plain packaging displaying nothing more than the film’s title.”
“Under changes to the state’s...
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“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical...”
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Amnesty International: Uganda has a bill that... →
forwhenifeellikesharing:
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Charter 08 →
Charter 08 (simplified Chinese: 零八宪章; traditional Chinese: 零八憲章; pinyin: Língbā Xiànzhāng) is a manifesto signed by over 303 Chinese intellectuals and human rights activists to promote political reform and democratization in the People’s Republic of China.
Specific demands are:
Amending the Constitution.
Separation of powers.
Legislative democracy.
An independent judiciary.
Public...
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Google... FINALLY!!! →
“GOOGLE has threatened to shut down its operations in China after uncovering what it said were “highly sophisticated” cyberattacks aimed at Chinese human rights activists.”
“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we...
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“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco)
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“Worse part was Julia’s “Drink Until The Filter Policy Makes...”
– stephenconroy
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“Law is mind without reason.”
– Aristotle
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somethingintellectual:
Song of the Day:...
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Huxley vs Orwell →
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