Secretary of State Clinton’s Remarks on Internet Freedom
Flickr Creative Commons | Marcn Video: Secretary of State Clinton’s Remarks on Internet Freedom Today, Secretary Clinton talked about the transformative power of technology and the Administration’s...
View ArticleIran’s resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse web game
TEHRAN (Reuters) – With their paths through the Internet increasingly blocked by government filters, Nooshin and her fellow Iranian opposition-supporters say their information on planned protests now...
View ArticleDigital Dictatorship?
Yahoo! Georgetown Fellow Evgeny Morozov has written a fascinating opinion piece on what he describes as “techno-utopianism”: The belief that free and open access to information on the Internet...
View ArticleSupporting Dissent With Technology
Flickr Creative Commons | Hamed Saber by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan | New York Times | February 23, 2010 Cameran Ashraf was instant-messaging from Los Angeles with an activist in Iran during...
View ArticleDespite forecasts, freedom takes more than technology
Flickr Creative Commons | Hamed Saber By Jeff Jacoby |Boston Globe | April 25, 2010 IT WAS 21 years ago this spring that hundreds of thousands of students flooded the streets of Beijing, Shanghai, and...
View ArticleUS gives Iran more net freedom – but what about Syria?
Flickr Creative Commons | Turkletom By Jillian C York | The Guardian | June 16, 2010 Iranian web users recently received some good news: following the media frenzy over last year’s elections, the US...
View ArticleIranian Social Networking, Hard-Line Style
Flickr Creative Commons | 27389271 By Golnaz Esfandiari | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | July 28, 2010 “The website of the followers of Khamenei has been created. Please enter with your hijab and...
View ArticleIranian prosecutors demand death penalty for ‘blogfather’
Flickr Creative Commons | Joi Ito By Richard Spencer | The Guardian | September 23, 2010 Hossein Derakhshan, 35, who has both Iranian and Canadian nationality, won his nickname after developing a blog...
View ArticleWorld’s youngest detained blogger on trial in northern Iran
Flickr Creative Commons | Sean Hobson Reporters Without Borders | November 18, 2010 The world’s youngest detained blogger, 18-year-old Navid Mohebbi, is currently being tried behind closed doors before...
View ArticleInternet Censored in Iran to Sabotage Pro-Democracy Protests
Flickr Creative Commons | Troy Holden International Business Times | February 17, 2011 In an expected repeat of the January internet and electronic communication blockade in Egypt, Iranian authorities...
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