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PalConnect: Palestine's First-Ever Social Media Conference
From Tunisia to Syria, the year 2011 has brought to light the potential of social media as a tool for positive change, as well as the ways in which governments and other actors are able to harness such...
View ArticleFor Bloggers at Risk: Creating a Contingency Plan
In 2011, we have witnessed the incredible power of bloggers and social media users capturing the world’s attention through their activism. At the same time, regimes appear to be quickening the pace of...
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2011: A Year of Triumphs and Struggle for Bloggers in the Middle East and...
This article is was originally posted on Global Voices Online With all of the social media successes throughout the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, it would be all too easy to overlook the...
View ArticleGlobal Voices Partners with Electronic Frontier Foundation on “Bloggers Under...
In 2009, Global Voices launched Threatened Voices, an innovative project to track threats to bloggers and netizens worldwide. At the time, Threatened Voices filled a void in coverage, during a year a...
View ArticleA Declaration of Internet Freedom
As many have observed, the world is at a crucial moment when it comes to Internet freedom. In many countries around the world, new laws are being created to censor the Internet, while bloggers are...
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A Campaign for Syrian Bloggers
A version of this post originally appeared on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Deeplinks blog. As a headline from Reporters Without Borders stated today, the number of citizen journalists killed...
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With Conviction of Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia Backslides Further
Last week, EFF was dismayed to learn that Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega had been sentenced to eighteen years in prison under a sweeping and overbroad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. More...
View ArticleEFF's Guide to ‘Keeping Your Site Alive'
Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (full disclosure: I work there) launched a guide offering key strategies for keeping a site “alive” amidst a denial of service attack. The guide, on EFF's...
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In Censoring Anti-Islam Video, Did Google Do the Right Thing?
This past week, a video apparently made with the sole purpose of inciting Muslim anger by an American Coptic Christian was shown on Egyptian television, sparking protests outside the US Embassy in...
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Global Voices on Net Censorship
Every week, the Global Voices Advocacy Netizen Report brings our readers the most up-to-date information on global Internet censorship, privacy issues, regulations, and more, from a variety of sources....
View ArticleIn Case of Disconnection: Preparing Gaza for an Internet Shutdown
For days, rumors have abounded that Israel—which controls the telecommunications infrastructure of Palestine—plans to shut down the Internet in Gaza. While thus far the rumors have proven false,...
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Moroccan Editor Arrested for Terrorist Video Coverage
The medina of Casablanca in Morocco. Photo by Pawel Ryszawa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) The original version of this post appeared on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Deeplinks blog. Over...
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2013 in Review: A Fireside Chat with EFF's Jillian York and Eva Galperin
Graphic by 7iber (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Jillian York and Eva Galperin are both longtime Advox contributors that work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading US organization defending human rights...
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On Alaa, Learning, and the Struggle
Alaa and Manal. Photo by Lilian Wagdy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Egyptian activist, blogger, and GV Advox friend Alaa Abd El Fattah is currently in prison because of his work as an activist....
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Statement: Release Alaa Abd El Fattah And All Unjustly Detained In Egypt
The following statement was coordinated by IFEX and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and released on January 23, 2014 at the Arab Bloggers Meeting. The military “interim government” in Egypt is...
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