Last summer, a circumvention tool was born, out of opportunity and a desire to help the Iranian people, who suffer from a rather pervasive form of Internet censorship. The tool, it was promised, was “encrypted at such a level it would take thousands of years to figure out what you’re saying.” As it turns out, […]
Yesterday, referring to the hate speech run amok against Muslims in this country, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof asked the question, “Is this America?” Citing the recent words of bigot de l’année Marty Peretz of The New Republic, Kristof wonders aloud where all of the lessons learned in the past say, sixty years, have […]
This morning, when I learned that web host Rackspace had shut down the site of the Dove World Outreach Center, I did something rather unbecoming of an anti-censorship advocate: I cheered a little. The thing is, I’ve been pretty sick over this issue. I’ve always abided by the adage, “I may not agree with what […]