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Internet: The Great Firewall of China
A non-profit group of web designers, film directors and journalists who want to make the Internet censorship system more transparent has put up a web site called the “Great Firewall of China”. On the site you can test if a particular website address is blocked in China and see how the site looks from the perspective of a Chinese user. It works by routing the requested url from…
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UK: Government planning to become Peeping Tom
According to UK daily newspaper “The Sun” the UK Home office is currently planning to put x-ray like devices that could snap “naked” pictures of passers-by into lampposts or otherwise cover public space. While the idea here – as usual – is to trap terror suspects and identify people carrying weapons or explosives, it is unclear how controls or accountability for the use of such systems can be implemented. Officials claim one solution would be to allow only women to monitor female subjects. How this can be done on a public square sounds rather optimistic to us. People living in the UK are today already on average captured 300 times per day by more than 4 million surveillance cameras…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations
Today throughout the US celebrations will be held to honor Martin Luther King Jr. who was murdered 1968 in Memphis. Many things have changed since the march to Washington and his famous speech in 1963, but with the deterioration of civil rights throughout the world’s leading nations latest since 9/11 it is good to be reminded that there was a time not so long ago when people stood up for their rights and did not indulge in indifference to such changes.
A video of his famous speech is available online in full length (link below)…
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Politics: Transparency International releases 2006 CPI
Global civil society organization Transparency International has today released their annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2006. Again the CPI points to a strong correlation between corruption and poverty, with a concentration of impoverished states at the bottom of the list. The 2006 CPI ranks 163 countries by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined [...]
Internet: Reporters without Borders 2006 List of “Internet Black-Holes”
To initiate their 24-hour online demo against Internet censorship the international campaign organization Reporters without Borders has published their 2006 list of “Internet Black holes” – countries that censor and don’t provide free access to the Internet. Everyone is invited to connect to the Reporter without Borders website between 11 a.m. on 7 November and [...]
Russia: Activities of more then 90 NGOs suspended
Yesterday Russia has suspended the activities of more the 90 foreign non government organizations (NGOs) including Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and Human Rights Watch, saying they failed new registration requirements recently introduced with a controversial law. The law that was signed by President Putin earlier this year allows authorities to ban financing of specific [...]
