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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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11 January 2012

Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy

Written by Katitza Rodriguez · Latin America, Argentina

Two years ago, the UK dismantled their national ID scheme and shredded their National Identity Registry in response to great public outcry over the privacy-invasive program. Unfortunately privacy protections have...

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9 January 2012

The Arms Race Over The Internet Rages Onward - part 1

Written by Malicia Rogue · Feature, Conference

2011's Chaos Computer Congress (CCC) was on his 28th edition named “Behind Enemy Lines”. The 28C3, as it is called for shortness, was thus constituted by a myriad of talks and workshops discussing what is to be behind enemy lines. To put it clearly, this idiom is quite ambiguous: for repressive governments, the freedom fighters are the enemy, and vice and versa.

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4 January 2012

Will Iran Soon Have Its Own “Clean Internet”?

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran, Middle East & North Africa

The Iranian regime may be losing its battle to filter content on the internet, but meanwhile it is trying news things - from slowing down internet speeds, to developing a so-called "national internet" or "clean internet".

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22 December 2011

China: Micro-blog real name registration extended to Guangzhou and Shenzhen

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

The regulation of real name registration for micro-blogging platform has extended from Beijing to Guangzhou and Shenzhen. According to local report [zh], the real name registration requirement is started today...

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18 December 2011

China: Real Name Registration for Micro-blogging

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

The Beijing city government introduced a new set of regulations on December 16, 2011 to control the flow of information in micro-blogging platforms. The Beijing Municipal Regulations Concerning the Development...

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