Source: Internews
The Global Digital Download is a weekly publication that aggregates resources on Internet freedom, highlighting trends in digital and social media that intersect with freedom of expression, policy, privacy, censorship and new technologies.
Tag Archives: Freedom of Expression
Internews’ Global Digital Download
May 10, 2012 – 2:41 am
CJFE’s Review of Free Expression in Canada includes piece by Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert
May 3, 2012 – 3:16 pm
In his piece, Professor Deibert writes about Canada’s role in securing cyberspace, quasi-national cyber armies such as the Syrian Electronic Army and the challenges faced by global civil society in cyberspace.
UK filmmaker unwittingly divulges identity of Syrian activists
May 3, 2012 – 2:55 pm
Source: Matthieu Aikins, Columbia Journalism Review
Last fall, “Kardokh,” a 25-year-old dissident and computer expert in the Syrian capital of Damascus, met with British journalist and filmmaker Sean McAllister. (Kardokh is his online pseudonym, used at his request.)
Vietnam charges three people with “propaganda against the state” for using Internet for protest
April 28, 2012 – 1:50 am
Source: Voice of America
Vietnamese authorities have accused Nguyen Van Hai, Phan Than Hai and Ta Phong Tan of posting 421 articles on their Web logs, or blogs, that “distorted and opposed the State.”
Fake Skype encryption software serves up Syrian-based Trojan
April 20, 2012 – 9:12 am
Source: Nart Villeneuve, Trend Micro
As the conflict in Syria persists, the Internet continues to play an interesting role.
The not-so-great firewall of China
April 17, 2012 – 9:23 am
Source: Rebecca MacKinnon, Foreign Policy
Every news organization needs a social media strategy. Even China’s government-controlled Xinhua News Agency now “tweets” news bulletins through Twitter-like microblogs called weibo — through which more than 300 million users share details of their daily lives, jokes, gossip, and news.
Tunisia’s presidency backs conviction of men for insulting Islam on Facebook
April 6, 2012 – 9:11 pm
Source: The Washington Post
Two men have been convicted and sentenced to prison in Tunisia for posting Facebook images of the Prophet Muhammad in a compromising position, a court decision that drew support Friday from the presidency of this once staunchly secular country.
Oman activists’ Facebook, Twitter accounts hacked
April 4, 2012 – 9:20 pm
Source: Sunil K. Vaidya, Gulf News
Omani activists vocal during protests in Oman last year and subsequently demanding release of protesters held in prison are now faced with the problem of online hacking.
India cracks down on Tibetan protests during Chinese leader’s visit
March 28, 2012 – 9:19 pm
Source: Jason Burke, The Guardian
A Tibetan exile who set himself on fire in Delhi earlier this week has died, as Indian police and paramilitaries launch a security crackdown to prevent further protests or self-immolations during the visit of the Chinese premier, Hu Jintao.
China’s Twitter war
March 22, 2012 – 5:46 pm
Source: Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations
Over the last week, supporters of Tibet, and the merely curious, have seen information warfare up close.
