Tag: censorship

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
Clay Shirky delivers a clear and cogent history and explanation of PIPA/SOPA, walking through through both the intent and what the ramifications of the bill and how it changes the entire legal system under which websites operate.
January 19, 2012
Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best
EFF highlights some of the largest sites that participated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.
January 19, 2012
ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday
I’ll also be posting a message to protest and inform people about PIPA and SOPA, though I imagine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.
January 16, 2012
life and times of sha.ddih – Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship
This is a really compelling argument as to why unplanned wireless mesh networks won’t work at scale.
November 27, 2011
Yuxi You – So you still think the Internet is free
So do you?
January 13, 2011
Electronic Frontier Foundation – 2010 Trend Watch Update: Global Internet Censorship
Censorship and the internet, what’s up with that.
January 2, 2011
ITworld – Gov’t crackdown spurs initiatives to route around DNS
DNS unfortunately is too easily interfered with on the basis of political decisions.
December 9, 2010