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Facebook institutes an appeals process

Editor’s note: After many years, I still get comments on this post asking for advice. My new project, Onlinecensorship.org, offers information on how to appeal Facebook and other companies’ decisions, check it out.   Remember those days when users whose Facebook accounts had been disabled would receive a message stating that the decision could not […]

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Rebecca MacKinnon at TED: Let’s Take Back the Internet!

It is not often that I frame a post around a video, but Rebecca MacKinnon’s TED talk is perfect in describing one of the issues most important to me: the censorship of the Internet, both by governments and intermediaries. Not only is Rebecca a great speaker, but the nature of TED–wherein the hyperintelligent audience may […]

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Ethan Bronner and Journalistic Integrity (Redux)

Last year, when a report from the Electronic Intifada (EI) indicated that New York Times Middle East bureau chief Ethan Bronner hadn’t been forthcoming about his son’s participation in the Israeli Defense Forces, I wrote that I felt it was a strong conflict of interest for a foreign embedded journalist to have a child participating […]