In this week’s Blind Chess Tienchi Martin-Liao talks about how China “maintains stability” by monitoring its citizens, including the essayist and blogger Ye Du.
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In this interview cyberactivists Ameer and Syrian Thinker talk about the Syrian government’s current surveillance of Twitter, the groups of activists known as “coordinations” that disseminates news via Twitter and Facebook, and the methods Syrian bloggers use to work around the government’s censorship.
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From Wikileaks to Blue Coat, we take a look at the fighters and facilitators of electronic surveillance technology and the repressive regimes that make use of the technology to monitor and censor citizens.
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