GVSummit08

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Egypt: Bloggers for Terrorism

Egyptian bloggers are posting their own photographs, posing with fake guns and pistols, on their blogs and Facebook groups as part of a new gimmick to draw attention to the plight of detained blogger Mohamed Adel. Find out more about Operation General Mait in this article by Lasto Adri.
Japan: Bloggers respond to new filtering measures

Over the past week, Japan's major mobile phone operators have commenced filtering web access on mobile phones contracted to minors (users under 18 years of age), following on legislation introduced in late 2007 and on developments over the last year toward the regulation of “harmful” content. On January 30th, NTT...
Australia embraces web censorship

The issue of internet censorship generally involves countries deemed non-democratic or “repressive” (something I discuss in my new book, The Blogging Revolution.) We regularly read reports about the regimes in China or Iran blocking countless “subversive” websites for overtly political gain. Alas, a growing number of nations in the West...

8 February 2009
Egypt: Bloggers for Terrorism

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Activism
5 February 2009
Japan: Bloggers respond to new filtering measures

Written by Chris Salzberg · Advocacy
17 October 2008
Australia embraces web censorship

Written by Antony Loewenstein · Activism

Stories about GVSummit08

15 July 2008

NGOs: Defending the voices

At the end of our first day of open work, GV founder Rebecca MacKinnon put an important idea on the table: censorship is not only a political or technological problem;...

12 July 2008

Activists Meet the Academy: GVO Summit Day 1, Session 4

Written by John Liebhardt · Advocacy

Participants of the fourth session of Global Voices first day of its Summit 2008, discussed the tools to help create better internet access while maintaining anonymity. The session, which carried...

2 July 2008

Towards a total human rights outlook

Written by Antony Loewenstein · Advocacy

How can NGOs seeking to advance freedom of expression most effectively work with on-the-ground free speech activists to combat censorship? As a journalist, author and blogger living in Sydney, Australia,...

Citizen Media and Online Free Speech

Written by David Sasaki · Advocacy

While the first session of the 2008 Global Voices Summit focused on how internet censorship works in Belarus, Japan, Egypt, and Pakistan, and how activists have responded to those limitations,...

A global anti-censorship network: GV08 Summit Day One, Session One

Written by Steve Sharra · Advocacy

Also making opening remarks on Day One was Sami Ben Ghabia, Adcovacy Director for Global Voices. Sami is originally from Tunisia, but is now living in the Netherlands. Sami described...

28 June 2008

GV Summit: Day One a Success!

Written by Jillian York ·

The first day of the Global Voices 2008 Summit in Budapest, Hungary was a wild success, as far as we can see (obviously we can't know all of the implications...

Advox Conference: Stephanie Hankey's slides about Tactical Technology Collective

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia ·

Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own