Digital Frontiers’ Doug Bernard is out of the office at the moment, but DF would like to draw your attention to a few stories elsewhere on voanews.com. The first is from Dorian Jones in Istanbul, and this story describes a web trend in Turkey: Turkey already bans more websites than any other European country. Now […]
New Year, New Relationships
Posted April 21st, 2011 at 3:01 pm (UTC-4)
Bun Tharum | Phnom Penh As in past, this year’s Cambodia’s New Year celebrations saw many of that nation’s young traveling home, visiting old friends and catching up with their families. This is a time-honored tradition. But now that the festivities are concluded and people return to their modern lives, Cambodia’s youth are returning to […]
Leaping Over the Censors
Posted April 13th, 2011 at 3:15 pm (UTC-4)
JulieAnn McKellogg | Washington While it’s hard to generalize across the nations, it seems apparent the Internet and digital networks continue to play a serious role in helping pro-democracy activists organize and communicate. This, despite efforts by a growing number of governments to limit, censor, or totally block portions of the web. This week the […]
Russians Battle Over Internet Freedom – UPDATE
Posted April 11th, 2011 at 3:30 pm (UTC-4)
UPDATE: 19 hours UTC Monday – Author and cyber-security expert Jeffrey Carr reports on his blog “Digital Dao” that lists of the sites attacked, and the botnets employed, are now being released. Additionally, he reports suspicions are now turning to a group known as “the Nashi.” Who are the Nashi? Carr writes: “The Nashi was […]
Protecting Arabs Online
Posted April 9th, 2011 at 1:48 pm (UTC-4)
…And Taking Armenia Off Two items recently caught our eye. There’s not much on our part to add, but in retrospect they both seem to speak to a similar theme – that of how fragile our online worlds can be. First, the nonprofit Access Now – a loose group campaigning for expanded online freedom and […]
Hitting the Panic Button
Posted April 7th, 2011 at 3:30 pm (UTC-4)
…And Whom It Might Benefit Most There’s been a certain amount of buzz following a series of stories on the development of what’s being termed a “cell phone panic button.” At first view, it may seem like a sensible, even helpful idea for democracy advocates. But there are growing worries that it may not just […]
The Conspiracy Factory
Posted April 4th, 2011 at 5:39 pm (UTC-4)
“Conspiracy theory is pornography for lazy researchers.” – Chip Berlet
