- technologies of dissent – a2k4 – human rigths usa and EFF

Theresa Harris, Human Rights USA Filtering is the best example of censorship. Eg. in Saudi Arabia or taking down videos of police brutality in Egypt. This software is provided by US companies.  How can you provide facebook to Iranians without it being used to arrest protestsors? should we provide this software or shouldn’t we? Many [...]

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- technologies of dissent – a2k4 – anupam chander

Anupam Chander, UC Davis School of Law We might see the perfection of surveillance. Because dissidents use the internet to identify dissent. Coffee shops were considered places where dissent plots occurred and were shut down in the 1700s. There is a narrowness of the pre-internet discourse. Traditional media failed and continues to fail in providing [...]

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- technologies of dissent – a2k – mapping dissent

Laura DeNardis, Yale Information Society Project The dissolution of boundaries between the virtual and the physical in activism. How does it require a re-conceptualization of social action. What are our responsibilities towards dissent? Interested in DOS attacks as was used example during the Iranian protests. We have seen the use of social media in protest. [...]

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- beijing yiprenping center

Sitting next to me at A2k4 is Lu Jun, Chief Coordinator of the Beijing Yipenping Center in China. He is here on a three-year fellowship at Yale’s Law School. The Center works on   public health and right to education. It also works on policy advocacy and the legal protection against discrimination in employment. Jun tells [...]

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more on HDF and the Sudanese delegation

The Sudanese delegation Well the Sudanese delegation repeated several times the need to remove the software export restrictions ban that is put on the Sudan. You see, there is software that, if given to someone who lives in the Sudan, is punishable by the law in the US because there is an embargo on some [...]

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worst places to be bloggers

Worst countries to be a blogger in: CPJ announced its worst ten countries for bloggers… and guess how many are in the Middle East? Relying on a mix of detentions, regulations, and intimidation, authorities in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Egypt have emerged as the leading online oppressors in the Middle East and North [...]

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