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Opinion: Online Piracy Act seen as censorship threat

donal brown November 28, 2011

The Stop Online Piracy Act would bring China-style Internet censorship to the United States, argues Rebecca MacKinnon in an op-ed in The New York Times. MacKinnon said the bill before Congress, designed to protect intellectual property, would “inflict collateral damage on democratic discourse and dissent both at home and around the world.” -db From an op-ed in The New York Times, November 15, 2011, by Rebecca MacKinnon. Full story

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Obama’s ‘Internet in a Suitcase’ sneaks free speech across borders

FAC June 16, 2011

The Obama administration has invested $70 million to develop a “stealth internet” and cell phone system that will help dissidents in autocratic countries get around censorship and undermine dictatorships, the New York Times first learned from classified diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks. Among these high-tech “secret” weapons is the Internet in a Suitcase: “Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow

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Techies strive to provide tools to circumvent Internet censorship

donal brown May 17, 2011

EFF’s Seth Schoen says that governments are constantly on the move to censor the web, recently forcing ISPs to censor sites from the DNS. They are counting on the users not realizing censorship is happening and that users will not know how to bypass the censors. Governments are also using the Internet to monitor the content of individual expression. The second edition of How to Bypass Internet Censorship, available online at no cost, provides tools

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EFF lists projects underway to protect internet speech

donal brown December 14, 2010

Electronic Freedom Foundation’s Technology Director Chris Palmer says that a number of projects are underway to reduce centralization on the Internet and improve security and accessibility for the public. -db Electronic Freedom Foundation Commentary December 14, 2010 By Chris Palmer The past few weeks have highlighted the vulnerability of centralized information systems to censorship: online speech is only as strong as the weakest intermediary. Sites hosting legitimate speech were caught up in an anti-counterfeiting raid

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Free speech technology project collapses

FAC September 15, 2010

A prominent US technology project designed to help Iranians evade internet censorship has collapsed amid recriminations this week after what its lead developer admitted had been a case of “hype trumping security.” The Financial Times September 15 2010 By Richard Waters in San Francisco The plan, known as Haystack, was part of a broader wave of US technologies designed to promote free speech on the internet in repressive regimes, with the active support of the

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