Join the herd!
The Open Net Initiative, a project of the Berkman Center (my employer), Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Oxford Internet Institute and the… Read More »Join the herd!
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Good and bad news from Zimbabwe
I mentioned two days ago that Zimbabwean authorities were holding a two-year old child prisoner, along with his activist parents. Denford Magora drew my attention… Read More »Good and bad news from Zimbabwe
Install a trojan for Israel? Uh, no thanks.
During the conflict between Russia and Georgia this past summer, my friend Evgeny Morozov decided to study the dynamics of “cyberwar” by becoming a partisan.… Read More »Install a trojan for Israel? Uh, no thanks.
China, porn and unintended consequences
Folks who study internet filtering found their phones ringing yesterday as reporters sought comment on the news that Chinese internet authorities were warning a number… Read More »China, porn and unintended consequences
Censoring a little is hard. Censoring a lot is easy.
Update: IWF has stopped blocking Wikipedia. Their reasoning here. An interesting sentence from their release: “We regret the unintended consequences for Wikipedia and its users.”… Read More »Censoring a little is hard. Censoring a lot is easy.
Free Hoder?
An Iranian website is reporting that Hossein Derakshan – “Hoder” – is under arrest for susicion of espionage on behalf of the state of Israel.… Read More »Free Hoder?