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Report: U.S. corporations joining with tyrants to curb Internet freedom

donal brown September 22, 2011

Current laws and codes of conduct aren’t enough to prevent United States companies from helping repressive regimes censor the Internet and control information that have abetted human right abuses, according to a report from a Canadian security firm. The Global Online Freedom Act, a law under consideration, would prohibit U.S. companies from helping governments restrict the Internet. -db From the National Journal, September 20, 2011, by Josh Smith. Full story

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Free press: Punishments continue as Chinese government objects to magazine content

donal brown August 22, 2011

China removed the head of a biweekly magazine and suspended its editor over publication of an interview with a Taiwanese historian. The historian was quoted saying that Sun Yat-sen was ready to cede Chinese territory to Japan in return for military help in defeating a local warlord. The historian also said the Communist Party’s history was not always factual. The Committee to Protect Journalists said a number of journalists had been punished this year for

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EFF director argues for use of online pseudonyms

donal brown August 1, 2011

With advent of the Google+ policy requiring users to identify by “the name your friend, family or do-workers usually call you,” Jillian York, a director for the Electronic Freedom Foundation argues that the benefits of pseudonyms outweigh the negatives, particularly for gays and other people subject to violence or harassment such as victims of domestic violence and particularly those opposing oppressive political regimes. York writes, “Those in favor of the use of ‘real names’ on

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China: Microbloggers defy censorship in relaying facts of high-speed train crash

donal brown July 29, 2011

Chinese censors are failing to contain the flood of online messages about the wreck of a high-speed train outside Wenzhou that killed 40 people and injured 191. Messages total 26 million. Citizens began the posts right after the accident and in many instances foiled the manipulations of government officials. In Wenzhou, officials ordered lawyers not to accept cases from families of victims without permission. After this came to light on the internet, they were forced to

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Electronic Frontier Foundation urges Cisco and Microsoft to stop enabling Chinese oppression

donal brown July 14, 2011

An Electronic Frontier Foundation opinion piece argues that Microsoft and Cisco are more interested in abetting China’s repressive regime than taking a stand for freedom. With Google abandoning the search market in China rather than submit to censorship, Microsoft has recently stepped into the void by agreeing with Baidu to provide Bing web search services in English and to self-censor its search results. After coming under scrutiny for helping create China’s internet firewall and assisting

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