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Proposals to curb online speech viewed as threat to open internet
""This is the next evolution of political suppression," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Ce…
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Computer security is necessary for journalist safety
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published, in Spanish, in El País. This week, journalists, technologists, and other human rights advocates will…
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Will Fear Change the Internet? Self-Policing Has Already Started
""The Internet is moving away from a place where anyone can say anything and find any information they want," Jennifer Granick, director of Civil…
Two new initiatives will hold tech companies accountable on press freedom
The launches of OnlineCensorship.org today and Ranking Digital Rights on November 3 will ensure technology companies serve--rather than squelch--the free flow o…
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Online comment forums to continue despite ECHR ruling
"According to some interpretations, the verdict indicates that the media are responsible for the comments posted by anonymous users. Such explanation is, h…
Censoring ISIS’s online propaganda isn’t working out very well
David Fidler has a new brief for the Council on Foreign Relations examining U.S. public and private sector efforts to counter the online propaganda of the Islam…