Fear, intimidation, and censorship are traits of authoritarian regimes.
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The 2016 World Press Freedom Index was published yesterday, showing world leaders are still paranoid about journalists.
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A flood of new surveillance technologies are giving the government access to a wider ranger of personal information than ever before, according to a recent Harvard study.
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“It is not a great time to be a journalist in America.” In this article originally published on August 21 at the ACLU, author Nao Yachot examines the ways in which the events in Ferguson indicate an ongoing trend of government attacks on First Amendment rights.
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“For those who never heard of him before, Ammar 404 is Tunisia’s Big Brother.” The Dissident Blog reports on the former fall, the recent resurrection, and overall pervasiveness of a government authority responsible for online censorship.
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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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Political cartoonist Jehad Awrtani (Jordan) on the US Prism program, which deemed to allow the tracking of people on the internet worldwide.
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