Censorship | PirateTimes – Part 2
Battles for Democracy. Week 23.
Reset The Net initiative is pushing the use of encryption to new levels; German and British spy stations discovered; Egypt will acquire a brand new system for mass surveillance. Citizens abused or killed, liberties and rights cut Above-top-secret details of…
Was the Stockholm Internet Forum More Than Nice Words?
In his ending keynote Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sweden, had many nice words to say about the future for Internet Freedom and what ought to apply but the question is how much of those where just words….
#SIF14 Conference, How Important is Internet Freedom?
Stockholm Internet Forum 2014 (SIF14) “aims to deepen the discussions on how freedom and openness on the Internet promote economic and social development worldwide”. This was the third time that the Stockholm Internet Forum was organized by The Swedish Ministry…
Battles for Democracy. Week 22.
Encryption tool endorsed by Snowden abruptly shuts down; UK government threatened with shutting down the Guardian if files from the Snowden case were not destroyed; Europe on the verge of destroying online comments and free speech; Calls for social media…
Battles for Democracy. Week 21
The copyright monopoly cannot be enforced without mass surveillance. We’d better reinvent banking or remove it altogether. 152 out of 736 Members of European Parliament have other earnings apart from their salary. Credit Suisse will pay $2.6 billion for helping…
Battles for Democracy. Week 19
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy. “We kill people based on metadata” confirms Michael Hayden ex-director for NSA; Corporations guilty of ethical, financial or environmental misconduct give advice to the comission; Crackdown intensifies ahead of Tiananmen anniversary; 30.000…
Battles for Democracy. Week 18
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy: New models of internet censorship are being piloted and perfected; What monitoring centers are procuring governments ; Norwegian Intelligence Service acquires a supercomputer to crack heavy cryptography; UK government offers school pupil…
Battles for Democracy. Weeks 16-17
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy: Hidden rules within the EU-US trade deal; Tibetan man on fire (the 130th) to protest against Chinese oppression; Repression, censorship, disappearances and impunity in Mexico; Financial data of UK taxpayers could be…
Battles for Democracy. Week 15
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy: The heartbleed bug; US spied human rights organisations; Nations buying as hackers sell flaws in computer code; Alaveteli: Open Source Freedom of Information Platform; Angela Merkel denied access to her NSA file……
Battles for Democracy. Week 14
A weekly summary of the battles for democracy we couldn’t write about. Citizens Losing Citizens abused or killed, liberties and rights cut. As we approach the European elections in late May, many Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will be…
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