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Global Network Initiative Announces New Executive Director
March 9, 2010 | The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Morgan as its first Executive Director.
China’s Cyberposse
by Tom Downey | New York Times | March 7, 2010 | Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon.
Afghan Reporters Caught In The Crossfire
by Mohmmad Amin Mudaqiq | Radio Free Europe | March 5, 2010 | The mushrooming young Afghan media face tough challenges as they try to keep their independence amid growing violence and pressure from both the government and armed insurgents.
Sen. Durbin blasts local non-participants in GNI; promises IT human rights legislation
by Bonnie Boglioli-Randall | Examiner.com | March 3, 2010 | Senator Richard (Dick) Durbin (D- IL) chaired a hearing to discuss the role of the Global Network Initiative in human rights. "I'm disappointed that a year and a half after the GNI started and no new companies have joined," Sen. Durbin candidly told the committee.
Google Ruling Could Limit Web Information, U.S. Officials Say
By Jeff Bliss | Bloomberg | March 2, 2010 | Requiring Internet companies to police content would slow the Web’s growth; Senator Richard Durbin says more companies need to join the Global Network Initiative
Supporting Dissent With Technology
by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan | New York Times | February 23, 2010 | Groups like AccessNow, Tor and Global Voices use technology to respond to threats to free expression and privacy
Google and Yahoo raise doubts over planned net filters
BBC News | February 16, 2010 | Net giants query Australia filter
Iran’s resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse web game
Reuters | Reza Derakhshi | February 8, 2010 | Iran's opposition groups find ways to circumvent government monitoring
Will Australia join China in filtering the Internet?
By Tim Edwards | The First Post | Hundreds of websites have joined a ‘blackout’ to protest against the government’s plans to filter the web
Turkey blocking 3,700 websites, reform needed: OSCE
Reuters | Turkey's Internet law failing to preserve free expression.
Are China’s demands for Internet ’self-discipline’ spreading to the West?
By Rebecca MacKinnon | McClatchy Washington Bureau | In the Western democratic world, the idea of strengthening intermediary liability is becoming increasingly popular in government agencies and parliaments.
Internet censorship in China
By Tania Branigan | Guardian | The creep of internet censorship in China: a timeline of the last 12 months
Internet gives Chinese a platform but regime wary: experts
By Francois Bougon | Agence France Presse | The Internet is an outlet for free expression, but Beijing's unrelenting surveillance only highlights state fears about the power of the web
Google Gets on the Right Side of History
By Rebecca Mackinnon | The Wall Street Journal | By announcing it will no longer censor its Chinese search engine and will reconsider its presence in China, Google has taken a bold step onto the right side of history.
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