Daniel Castro of The Information Technology & Innovation Fund recently published a paper supporting the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) currently being debated in congress.… Read More »SOPA and our 2010 Circumvention Study
Today is International Volunteer Day, a celebration of the millions of people around the world who give their time, energy and wisdom to projects and… Read More »An open thank you letter to Global Voices, on International Volunteer Day
On Monday, June 6th, a post appeared on the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” announcing that Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, the “girl” in… Read More »Understanding #amina
Azerbaijan is far from an easy place to be an independent journalist – the nation ranks 152nd in Reporters Without Borders 2010 survey on press… Read More »Who freed Eynulla Fatullayev? And what does his release mean for Twitter activism?
I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the “Arab Spring” and what we’ve learned about social… Read More »Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
I spent part of Wednesday at MIT’s Communications Futures Program, where the topic at hand was internet openness. Political scientist Shirley Hung opened the afternoon… Read More »Shirley Hung on control of the Chinese Internet