Advocacy

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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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

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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2011: A Year of Triumphs and Struggle for Bloggers in the Middle East and North Africa

Written by Jillian York · Tunisia, Syria

With all of the social media successes throughout the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, it would be all too easy to overlook the struggles faced by bloggers and netizens throughout the region. But with 126 netizens imprisoned, it would be a travesty.

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