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February, 2005


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February 28th, 2005

Global Voices blogger Jeff Ooi questioned in Malaysia regarding weblog comments

A small portrait of the translator Ethan Zuckerman · 11:25 · East Asia
Global Voices ally and contributor Jeff Ooi was taken in for questioning this morning by Malaysia's Criminal Investigation Division regarding a September 2004 post on his weblog, Screenshots. Jeff was questioned for two hours and released. It's unclear whether the authorities will close the case regarding Jeff's weblog, or whether ... 16 comments  · read »

February 17th, 2005

Cyberdissidents and WSIS

A small portrait of the translator Rebecca MacKinnon · 13:04 ·
Reporters Without Borders has taken a delegation of cyber-dissidents to the U.N.'s preparatory meeting for the World Summit on Internet & Society this week.  Global Voices is naturally concerned about efforts by governments that do not uphold free speech to interfere with internet governance.  RWB has come out with an ... 2 comments  · read »

February 4th, 2005

Indexing Bridge Blogs

A small portrait of the translator Ethan Zuckerman · 02:18 · Projects
I'm in southern India this week (just outside of Bangalore), at the AsiaSource conference, a gathering of NGO tech professionals from around Asia, who are learning how to convert their organizations to open source platforms. It's been an amazing cross-cultural experience - I've had great conversations about access to the ... 0 comments  · read »