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22 January 2012

Poland: Netizens Protest Government's Plan To Sign ACTA Next Week

With the world still talking about the aftermath of the SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day, Polish netizens are confronted with another backstabbing development in the fight for free Internet: ACTA.

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20 January 2012

Internet Blackout Day Fires Up Digital Rights Activism Around the World

Written by Katitza Rodriguez · Europe, Mexico

Yesterday was a defining moment for the global Internet community. The effects of the massive online blackout in protest of U.S. Internet blacklist legislation, SOPA and PIPA, were felt around the world as countless websites joined in a global action against over-broad and poorly drafted copyright laws.

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18 January 2012

U.S. Bills Could Threaten the Global Internet

Written by Ivan Sigal · USA

At Global Voices, we understand that we, collectively, are the Internet. Our individual participation is what makes the Internet a global conversation of startling depth and variety, but this is...

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17 January 2012

Iran: Another blogger in jail

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Hadi Nili says according to confirmed reports from Tehran, Parastoo Dokouhaki, Iranian blogger and journalist, is arrested by authorities. Parastoo is a women activist as well. She writes in her...

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Iran: Jailed Islamic Cleric and Blogger on Hunger Strike

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

In the last 33 years since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has been a kind of paradise for Islamic clerics who gained power and rule over the country. But not for...

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16 January 2012

How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation

Written by Trevor Timm · United States

Over the weekend, the Obama administration issued a potentially game-changing statement on the blacklist bills, saying it would oppose PIPA and SOPA as written, and drew an important line in...

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15 January 2012

Iran: A cleric blogger on hunger strike

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Mohammad Sadegh Honarvar Shojayi, a blogger and cleric started his hunger strike on Monday. He was arrested by the Prosecutor General on charges of conducting an interview with the reformist...

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14 January 2012

Venezuela: Cyberactivist Luis Carlos Díaz harassed and threatened by “hackers”

Written by Sonia Doglio · Venezuela

For the second time in only four months, Venezuelan journalist and cyberactivist Luis Carlos Díaz is being harassed by a so-called group of pro-government "hackers", who act under the name of N33, and who in previous months have hacked into the Twitter and e-mail accounts of about thirty different Venezuelan personalities, including journalists Sebastiana Barráez, Ibéyise Pacheco, political humorist Laureano Márquez, activist Rocío San Miguel and writer Leonardo Padrón, amongst many others.

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12 January 2012

Netizen Report: Celebration Edition

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Netizen Report

In our first edition of 2012, we take a look at the mounting challenges from all directions to online free expression, and celebrate the many ways in which netizens around the world are fighting back.

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11 January 2012

Iran: Khazali was arrested again

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Shoorezar reports [fa] Mehdi Khazali, a blogger, publisher and son of a leading conservative cleric and former Council of Guardians member, Ayatollah Khazali, was arrested again last week. He was...

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