In this video, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman talks to Rainey Reitman about today’s anti-surveillance campaign protest: “The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance.” Reitman is the activism director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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Over the past year, dozens of journalists have been fired as a result of government pressure. Turkey’s government is improperly using its leverage over media to limit public debate about government actions and punish journalists who dispute government claims, concludes a new Freedom House report.
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In this week’s column, Egyptian writer Hamdy el-Gazzar offers a personal account of the evening of February 11, 2011, the day former president Hosni Mubarak stepped down from office, ushering what he and many in the streets of Cairo celebrated as a new promising chapter for Egypt.
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In this week’s column, Egyptian writer Hamdy el-Gazzar offers a personal account of the evening of February 11, 2011, the day former president Hosni Mubarak stepped down from office, ushering what he and many in the streets of Cairo celebrated as a new promising chapter for Egypt.
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Read an exclusive excerpt from Rewa Zeinati‘s first creative nonfiction book, Nietzche’s Camel Must Die: An Invitation to Say ‘No.’ A compilation of 115 daily Facebook notes, the themes range from women’s status and gender roles to kitchen sink grinders and men’s beards.
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In this interview Jason Q. Ng discusses the place that the social media site Sina Weibo has in Chinese culture, the origins of the Great Firewall and its censorship office, and why certain terms have been blocked on Weibo. Ng is author of Blocked on Weibo.
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Since the coup in Honduras of 2009, at least 32 Honduran journalists have been killed and many more continue to work in a climate of fear and self-censorship. A new PEN International report documents the intertwining roles that allow the violence to continue with near complete impunity.
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