Book Review: Consent of the Networked
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, February 3 2012
Last night, a crowd of more than one hundred gathered on the sixth floor of MIT's Media Lab to help Rebecca MacKinnon launch her new book, The Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. The audience included net luminaries like Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, and Andrew Newman, the director of the Tor Project, and the discussion was at the same level. Herewith, my thoughts on her book salted by some observations from the event. Read More
On Humor and Being 'Harmonized:' Read This NYTimes Piece on Censorship in China
BY Nick Judd | Monday, October 31 2011
Discovered late, this New York Times Magazine article on the tension between Internet humor and censors in China is well worth a read: To slip past censors, Chinese bloggers have become masters of comic subterfuge, ... Read More
Internet Drives Outrage Over Disaster in China
BY Nick Judd | Friday, July 29 2011
The aftermath of a bullet train crash in eastern China over the weekend is yet another example of the Chinese government's weakening grip on control of public access to information, shaken loose by scandal after scandal ... Read More
China Keeping Tabs on Microbloggers' Organizing, Crude Poems
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 9 2011
Chinese authorities are cracking down on perceived challenges that are popping up on 'microblogging' platforms, reports the New York Times' Michael Wines in a pair of articles. They are, reports Wines, objecting to ... Read More
White House Officials Targeted in Gmail Invasion
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, June 3 2011
At a hearing last month, House oversight committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa pressed White House Chief Information Officer Brook Colangelo on whether White House staff might be bringing personal iPads with them to work. ... Read More
Eggs Against the Wall in Beijing
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, May 20 2011
Chinese authorities are reportedly looking for a college student who threw eggs at "the father of the Great Firewall." Read More
Rep. DeLauro Signs Change.org's Call for Clinton to Condemn China DDoS Attacks
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, April 26 2011
Change.org, the increasingly high-profile political petitioning site, has really banging pots around the story that its systems are being targeted by "Chinese hackers" angered by the more than hundred thousand ... Read More
After Attacks, Change.org Asks 'Where's the State Department?'
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, April 20 2011
Photo credit: Meneer De Braker Yesterday, we noted that Change.org was reporting that it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack originating from China, and was calling on the State Department for help ... Read More
Facebook Wants to Be Liked in Washington, China
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, April 20 2011
White House photo by Pete Souza Facebook is considering expanding into China, and with that the country will face some tough choices, report the Wall Street Journal's Elizabeth Williamson, Amy Schatz, and Geoffrey A. ... Read More
Change.org Asks for State Department Help Fending Off Chinese Hackers
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, April 19 2011
Photo credit: sanfamedia.com Change.org says that they're the victim of a distributed denial of service attack perpetrated by "Chinese hackers." The target, it seems, is a petition that is calling for the ... Read More