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The “cat and mouse” game between bloggers and government

This is a liveblog of a breakout panel at the Google Liberty at 2010 conference in Budapest, September 22, 2010. Cynthia Wong of the Center for Democracy and Technology introduces the next breakout panel, entitled “Online free expression and the cat and mouse game between bloggers and governments.” She introduces the session by mentioning the […]

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More on Content Regulation: Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, India

Rob Faris concluded his speech by introducing three panelists: Tattu Mambetalieva of the Civil Initiative on Internet Policy (Kyrgyzstan) and the OpenNet Initiative; Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society (India); and Shahzad Ahmad of Bytes for All (Pakistan). Tattu (I’ll be referring to her by first name for the sheer fact that […]

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Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere

At long last, the paper I’ve been working on since (gulp) April is now live on the OpenNet Initiative website: “Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere” tackles the issues of content regulation and account deactivations across five popular social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Blogger).  The paper is also available for PDF download […]