- Access Denied
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
- Adapt or Die: Millennials, Technology, and Net Neutrality
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The Internet is changing the way we think, concentrate, and process information. Studies are showing the Internet is lowering our concentration because the Internet offers constant distractions. Its reducing our attention span, and its ruining our interpersonal communication skills. Basically this technology is dehumanizing us.
- Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
- "ChinaLeaks" Stories Censored in Mainland China
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Chinese authorities move aggressively to block online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of Chinas political and financial elites.
- Corporate Corruption And The Special Interest State
Regulatory Capture at the FCC Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 With Tom Wheeler's nomination, expect pro big-telecom policies such as ending net neutrality, further industry consolidation, limiting meaningful competition and increasing user fees, among other policies.
- easyDNS Technologies Inc.
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Enemies of the Internet 2013
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance
- False Freedom
Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
- 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.
- GreatFire.org
Resource Type: Website GreatFire.org brings transparency to the Great Firewall of China. We have monitored blocked websites and keywords since 2011.
- 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.
- Internet 'kill switch' easy target in Egypt
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011
- Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
- 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 - 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.
- Their Internet or Ours?
Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 What happened to the Internet? 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?
- Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
- We Must Keep the Internet Free and Open. EFF, Tech Giants, Startups and Internet Users Tell FCC: Dont Sell Out Net Neutrality To Appease ISPs
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a broad coalition of user advocacy groups and major technology companies and organizations joined forces to protest the FCCs plan to toss out net neutrality rules that preserve Internet freedom.
- 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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