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Jillian York describes herself as “a writer, activist, Internet censorship combatant, and blogger.” She is based in Boston where she works at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on the OpenNet Initiative and Herdict, a crowdsourcing project to identify blocked websites.
She has a personal blog, writes frequently for the Huffington Post, and is an avid Twitter user. In this interview Jillian mentions her post from September, “The Cupcake Revolution.”
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I loved this interview with Jillian- I feel I got a much better sense of who she is and what she believes in after watching her on video since I’ve only known her via web before this. What a strong, devoted, and passionate women she is!
Hey David,
What video sharing platform are you using ?
The video does not appear neither on my mobile nor on my laptop.
Cheers
Anas
How strange. I’m using blip.tv:
http://oso.blip.tv/file/2949520/