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Surveillance technologies and “apolitical” corporations
Since the book’s manuscript was finalized in August, there has been a steady stream of headlines recently about the use of Western surveillance technology by repressive regimes, adding to the cases I...
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Learning from Egypt’s Internet and Cellphone Shutdown | Human Rights First
I wrote about Egypt’s Internet shutdown and the Egyptian government’s surveillance capabilities in the book’s introduction and in the beginning of Chapter 4. One year later, human rights groups,...
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Fighting the Great Firewall of Pakistan
Foreign Policy has published my latest contribution, Fighting the Great Firewall of Pakistan, featuring an interview with Sana Saleem, Global Voices contributor and founder of the Karachi-based social...
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Containing Weapons of Mass Surveillance
My latest article in Foreign Policy argues that President Obama is on the right track with Monday’s executive order, but the United States needs to get tougher on the global digital arms race. I...
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Does Internet Activism Work?
The Cato Institute’s online publication Cato Unbound is running a discussion about the effectiveness of Internet activism. Libertarian thinker and writer Berin Szoka argues that the Internet does make...
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Mark News: Internet Freedom and the Erosion of Democracy
Canada’s Mark News has just published my latest essay on how increasing government surveillance around the world is threatening the freedoms granted by Internet access. An excerpt: This week, at least...
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Netizen Report: Intervention Edition
This week’s Netizen Report on Global Voices Advocacy begins in Kuwait: Throughout this week’s edition we highlight examples of government intervention to limit free speech online, ostensibly “for the...
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Digital Bonapartism, Russia, and America in 2016
American democracy is entering uncharted and treacherous territory. Fabricated news to discredit political opponents, use of social media to manipulate the public discourse, and political hacking have...
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