In case you weren’t aware, I’m kind of a fan of the Olympics. Yes, I know about the drones, and the surveillance, and the IOC’s stupid rules about social media, and the rest of the free speech issues, and of course it angers me just like anything else. And I’m just as disgusted by the […]
The Declaration of Internet Freedom: how the net’s minutemen plan to protect the future From Global Voices: “Five days before his arrest in September last year, a prominent Ethiopian dissident blogger, Eskinder Nega, wrote, ‘Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. […]
By now, it’s pretty apparent that the Syrian regime listens to no one. And yet, as the friends I know who have spent time in Syrian prisons tell me, international attention does matter: it might help a blogger get better treatment, evade torture. Hussein Ghrer has been held for nearly five months. A campaign, launched […]