February, 2011
Stories from February, 2011
2 February 2011
Brazil: Remembering Internet censorship in 2010
One of 2010's landmark events, the Wikileaks phenomenon, highlighted a more than necessary debate about the state of freedom of speech throughout the world, specially on the internet. Let's make a healthy exercise, then, remembering some of the many censorship cases that happened last year in the brazilian internet.
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Egypt: Back Online
The Internet is just back in Egypt, and one by one, Egyptian colleagues, friends and contacts are popping back online. The moment is huge and there is euphoria in the air. Facebook and Twitter are still blocked on certain networks. Stay tuned for the barrage of citizen media which will be coming out of Egypt today - as bloggers and netizens tell us their story, in their own voice.
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1 February 2011
Russia: Online Freedom of Expression in 2010
In 2010, as the Internet became an increasingly important medium of communication for Russians—which a 40 percent spike in RuNet’s daily audience (RuMetrica) indicates—the issue of freedom of expression online gained in prominence. To a greater extent than ever before, Russians have begun to use the Internet as a channel for political activism and mobilization, a development that Russian leadership has found unnerving, as evidenced by its efforts to clamp down on cyberspace activity.
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I guess this story is supposed to make us Haitians proud of something , just because it involves the USA...