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Bassel Khartabil, Syrian prisoner who lives and risks dying for a free Internet

Article by Stéphanie Vidal under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence  First published by Slate.fr  Translation into English by Philippe Aigrain, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Jean-Christophe Peyssard Known worldwide as a free Internet defender and an Open Source culture promoter, he has been detained for three years and a half by the Bashar al-Assad regime and has […]

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Reading 9/18/15

Ursula Le Guin reviews Salman Rushdie. How space exploration replaced religion in the USSR The New York Times on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Yallah, Deutschland! On growing up Syrian in Germany and where we go from here A poetic piece in the WaPo about the Jesuit Volunteer Corps

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On Facebook’s ideology

Never before has it been so clear. On hate speech: …the companies have resisted calls in the past year by countries such as France and Germany to actively police their platforms for extremist or terrorist content, arguing that they shouldn’t be made to decide what constitutes legitimate debate. On nudity: We restrict the display of […]