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Berkman Buzz, WikiLeaks Edition

From this week’s Berkman Buzz, Wikileaks Edition, compiled by Rebekah Heacock: “…as a society, we have reached a place where the only way to protect some sorts of speech on the Internet is through one of only a couple dozen core Internet organizations. Totally ceding decisions about control of politically sensitive speech to that handful […]

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Is Circumvention Really So Important?

Yesterday, the Berkman Center released a paper that attempts to estimate circumvention tool usage globally.  As one of the lead authors, Ethan Zuckerman, explained on his blog yesterday: We were specifically interested in trying to compare usage of different types of tools – sophisticated blocking-resistant tools like Tor and Ultrasurf, ad-supported web proxies like Proxeasy […]

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5 Writers You Should Read

This is one of those half-brained ideas I came up with yesterday while doing some googling for good articles on the niqaab ban.  There are people I love to read–many of them are listed to the right, in my blogroll–but there are some people I think ought to be read by everyone (or, at least […]