I just got around to watching this in the course of a book chapter I’m writing on participatory media in the Middle East, but it’s absolutely still worth a watch. Choice quote: “We did all of this for the sake of a different media, a media that respected people’s minds and intelligence and at the […]
Normally, I’d have pitched an op-ed rebuttal or something, but this is just too stupid not to tear apart quick-and-dirty blog style. The TL;DR for context is that Ronan Farrow, privileged celeb commentator, wrote a ridiculous Washington Post piece about how social media companies should censor terrorists. Nevermind that this debate is two years old, […]
I’m really excited to say that a project I’ve been working on for two years, OnlineCensorship.org (currently in alpha), is one of this year’s Knight News Challenge winners, along with an incredible set of projects. The project came about in late 2011, on my first trip to Palestine. I remember it clearly; I was chatting […]