Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 03:08 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Reda Cherif
Aware that Islam is the most volcanic taboo in Morocco’s society, M.A.L.Is did not choose provocation deliberately. What they were bent on doing was to act as the mirror of “the provocative contradictions of Morocco’s social, religious and institutional fabric.”
Tags: activism, advocacy, africa, blogs, censorship, communication, facebook, internet, journalism, media, politics, religion, social media, social networks, transparency
Monday, November 22nd, 2010 10:41 am GMT -5 in News Briefs by Gabrielle Tang
The arrest of a woman in China for reposting a shorter-than-140-character message is just another example of China’s repression of online expression.
Tags: activism, blogs, censorship, china, facebook, internet, media, regulation, social networks, twitter
Sunday, November 21st, 2010 11:05 am GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs by Bianca Wilson
The Indian Government will soon be legally allowed to monitor all BlackBerry activity.
Tags: big brother, censorship, mobile phones, politics, transparency
Sunday, November 7th, 2010 03:06 pm GMT -5 in Content, Tubes by Reda Cherif
My trip to Cuba was an amazing opportunity to compare the two systems – the Free West and The Tropical Communism- through the prism of Digital Age, Web 2.0 and Social Networks.
It is so different and so similar at the same time.
Tags: blogs, censorship, communication, computation, data management, facebook, google, internet, media, network neutrality, New York Times, social media, social networks, technology
Sunday, October 17th, 2010 11:44 pm GMT -5 in Code, Content, Tubes by Erika Whillas
The internet firewall of China is working day and night to keep sensitive words such as “democracy”, “human rights”, “genocide”, “oppression”, “overthrow” and “dictatorship” out of public circulation – oh, and let’s not forget “evil”.
Tags: censorship, china
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 01:22 am GMT -5 in Code by Reda Cherif
Originally aimed at socializing people through entertainment videos (music, dance), Youtube has now become a major global actor playing a political role in each and every country.
Tags: big brother, censorship, communication, conflict, data management, facebook, internet, Israel, journalism, network neutrality, photo, social media, social networks, technology, transparency, volatility, youtube
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 07:38 am GMT -5 in News Briefs by Michael Cervieri
Schools in Beijing are quietly removing the Green Dam filter, which was required for all school computers in July, due to complaints over problems with the software.
Tags: big brother, censorship, china, filtering software, green dam