A few lines from Jonah Goldberg’s latest opinion piece in the LA Times: Feminism as a “movement” in America is largely played out. The work here is mostly done. Even the fight for “pay equity” is an argument about statistics, lagging cultural indicators and the actual choices liberated women make Countless Islamist countries practice gender […]
Further update: This CNN article is essential reading, particularly this quote (emphasis is mine): “The page… began as a call for peaceful protest, even though it used a term that has been associated with violence in the past. In addition, the administrators initially removed comments that promoted violence,” the company statement said. “However, after the […]
Today, the OpenNet Initiative has released a paper, authored by Helmi Noman and myself, enumerating the widespread use of American- and Canadian-built filtering technologies in the Middle East and North Africa. The paper, entitled “West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors 2010-2011“, looks closely at Websense, McAfee’s SmartFilter, and Netsweeper […]