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5 January 2012

Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress

Written by Becky Hogge · Europe, Germany

The Chaos Communications Congress is the annual meetup of Germany's Chaos Computer Club, one of the oldest hacker collectives in the world. The programme mixes technical talks from the security and free software worlds with talks about online rights and hacktivism.

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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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27 December 2011

Turkey: No tweets from the courtroom!

Written by Ece Temelkuran · Turkey

“Today the judge is more strict” says the tweet, “One undercover police for each row! All monitoring the ones who are tweeting!“ In Istanbul-Turkey, today is the 2nd day...

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23 December 2011

Netizen Report: Remembrance Edition

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Netizen Report

Vaclav Havel, a poet, playwright, dissident, last president of Czechoslovakia, and first president of the Czech Republic, died on Dec 18 at age 75. His story and words continue to inspire people around the world to fight against repression. Netizens around the world are doing their best to resist injustice and abuse of power, as events of the past fortnight make clear.

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22 December 2011

Iran: Blogger May Face Death Penalty

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Several bloggers and news sites reported [fa] that Mohammad Reza Pour Shajari, a jailed blogger , may face charge of ‘Waging War Against God' (moharebeh). A death sentence can be...

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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

Iran: Jailed blogger stopped his hunger strike

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Several sites reported [fa] that Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, Iranian jailed blogger stopped his hunger strike after about one week.Hossein is serving a 15 year prison sentence in the security ward...

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