- As ACTA talks resume, new leak confirms fears about threat to online free expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders urges ACTA negotiators not to sacrifice Internet free speech and access to online information to the desire to combat piracy and the counterfeiting of copyrighted works
- The conspiracy to censor the Internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating "trolls" and "fake news" supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.
- Deep Web
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2015
A documentary that explores the history and context of the world that these darkened online areas burgeoned from. Focusing on the recent court case of the alleged founder of the online market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it's a far more complex and multifaceted story than the media portrays. Deep Web investigates the greater implications for how we will all experience the internet in the future.
- Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Resource Type: Website
An open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.
For DCMI metadata terms, see https://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
See also: https://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#H2
- easyDNS Technologies Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- EFF To Court: Cisco Must Be Held Accountable For Aiding China's Human Rights Abuses
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Company Built Customized Golden Shield System to Identify Falun Gong Members Who Were Later Tortured.
- Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
- For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
- From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
- Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
- How to Spot - and Defeat - Disruption on the Internet
The 15 Rules of Web Disruption
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Over a number of years, we've found that the most effective way to fight disruption and disinformation is to link to a post such as this one which rounds up disruption techniques, and then to cite the disinfo technique you think is being used.
- Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
- The Internet is Already Broken
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
- Internet Ungovernance Forum
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Internet Ungovernance Forum is for those of us who demand free, secure, and open internet for the people! We're organizing the Internet Ungovernance Forum September 4-5 for people who demand that fundamental freedoms, openness, unity and net neutral
- Media Awareness Network
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Ours to Hack and To Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.
- Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.
- RSF calls for boycott of China's World Internet Conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to boycott the second World Internet Conference (WIC) being organized by China, the world's leading "Enemy of the Internet."
- Scunthorpe problem
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Scunthorpe problem is the blocking of e-mails, forum posts or search results by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word.
- Le site denonciateur RCILeaks.Org gagne sa bataille en Islande pour la liberte de paroles contre une firme immigrant investisseur canadienne
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Le site irreverencieux canadien RCILeaks.Org et son fournisseur de services internet islandais OrangeWebsite.com, ont gagne un combat judiciaire sans precedent sur la liberte d'expression a la Cour de district de Reykjavik.
- Sockpuppet (Internet)
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term — a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock — originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about, himself while pretending to be another person. The term now includes other misleading uses of online identities, such as those created to praise, defend or support a person or organization.
- Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
- Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
- Turkey, enemy of the Internet?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The 9th annual Internet Governance Forum will be held in Istanbul from 2 to 5 September. Reporters Without Borders will be there to denounce the increasing violations of freedom of information in Turkey and to argue that respect for this freedom
- Turkey's parliament approves even more Internet censorship and surveillance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Turkey: Government agency given more power to block websites and gather user data.
- Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens' online access – but it's the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty.
- Why anger is all the rage
The internet has made critics of us all. But why do so many commenters exploit the anonymity of chatrooms to promote hatred.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Anonymity in the online community has its proponents and detractors, the author interviews the founder of wikipedia and a facebook employee about the importance of moderation in social media. He comes to the conclusion that many of the extremist opinions espoused online would not be published if their authors had to attach them to their names.
- Why is everyone on the Internet so angry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A perfect storm engenders online rudeness, including virtual anonymity and thus a lack of accountability, physical distance and the medium of writing.
- The WikiLeaks wake up call
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Will a backlash against the WikiLeaks phenomenon have significant implications for the future of the Internet?
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