Internet Freedom

The Police, the iPhone and Your Right to Record

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: First Amendment, Free Press, Right to Record, Internet Freedom, Nato, Occupy Wall Street, Chicago, Video, Nato Summit 2012, Media News
Timothy Karr

While the media landscape has changed, our First Amendment rights haven't. Freedom of the press is more important, not less, when anyone with a mobile phone and an Internet connection can act as a journalist.

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What Is The Meaning Of Art? A Master Of Arte Povera Gives The Answer

Simona Lodi | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Piero Gilardi, Social and Artistic Forms of Representation., Internet Freedom, Tech-Art, Cybernetics, Castle of Rivoli, Italy, Arte Povera, Open-Source, Freedom of Speech, Turin, Politics, Activism, Networks, Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Horizontal Democracy, Sixties, Participation, Performance, Arts News
Simona Lodi

Piero Gilardi anticipated later movements, in seeing the aesthetic value of shared space and collaboration -- a value underpinning the open-source, Internet-based nature of tech-art today.

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Internet Freedom Is a Human Right

Sen. Chris Coons | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Syria, Internet Freedom, Chris Smith, Iran, Intellectual Property, Mark Kirk, Bob Casey, Internet Censorship, Hillary Clinton, Congress, Internet Security, China, State Department, Senate, Internet Freedom Act, Politics News
Sen. Chris Coons

Internet freedom -- the freedom to exchange thought, opinion, expression, and association to meet political, social, education, or religious objectives -- should not be restricted for law-abiding citizens in the United States or anywhere in the world.

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Why Is the TPP Such a Big Secret?

Tim Robertson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Outsourcing, Free Trade Agreements, Offshoring, Internet Freedom, Free Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Financial Regulation, Cispa, Politics News
Tim Robertson

The only way the corporate shopping list that is the TPP can get past public scrutiny is if no one ever hears about it. Fortunately, activists are fighting back.

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Today, We Are All Journalists

Chris DeVito | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Iran Human Rights, Human Rights, Internet-Crackdown, Internet Freedom, Citizen Journalism, Middle East, Press Freedom, World Press Freedom Day, Iran, Iran Press Freedom, Journalism, Freedom House, Video, World News
Chris DeVito

It's time to start paying attention to what can be done to both reduce the dangers of reporting and increase, if not simply safeguard, basic freedoms. This is important on all days, but especially today, World Press Freedom Day.

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Somebody You Used to Know Forever and Ever

Amalia Negreponti | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: The Internet, Steve Jobs, Gotye, Facebook, Internet Freedom, Immortality, Internet Censorship, Google, Ipad, Technology News
Amalia Negreponti

The Internet is our first success in the quest for a kind of "forever" and "togetherness." Through its amazing innovations we stay 'on' all the time, connected to one another, alive through this connection of ours.

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House Moves Ahead With Cybersecurity Bill

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Senate Cybersecurity, Video, Internet Freedom, House Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Plan, Internet Security, Cybersecurity Bill, US Cybersecurity, House Cybersecurity Bill, Cybersecurity Legislation, Cispa, Technology News

WASHINGTON — The House ignored Obama administration objections Thursday and approved legislation aimed at helping stop electronic attacks on cri...

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CISPA Is the New SOPA: Help Kill It This Week

David Segal | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Politics, Coica, Internet Freedom, Zuckerberg, Pipa, Facebook, Privacy, Cispa, Sopa, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, Internet Privacy, Online Privacy, Technology News
David Segal

CISPA is the new SOPA. Today marks the opening of a week of action in opposition to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would ob...

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Google Co-Founder: Internet Freedom Facing Greatest Threat Ever

Reuters | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Sergey Brin, Google, Sergey Brin Google, Video, Apple, Walled-Garden, Internet Freedom, Reuters, Google-Sergey-Brin, Facebook, Technology News

LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the Internet's creation are facing their greatest-ever...

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Iran Plans To Unplug Internet, Launch 'Clean' Alternative

arstechnica.com | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Internet, Iran, Internet Freedom, Middle East, Online Freedom, World News

Iran topped a recent list of repressive regimes that most aggressively restrict Internet freedom. The list, published by Reporters Without Borders, is...

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SOPA 2.0? New Bill Has Internet Activists Scared -- Again

Los Angeles Times | Morgan Little | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Sopa 2.0, SOPA Bill, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, Cispa Bill, Internet Freedom, Mike Rogers, Cispa Legislation, Internet Piracy, Dutch Ruppersberger, Sopa, Cispa, Politics News

In spite of their hopes, Internet activists are finding that their efforts to keep the digital world free of further regulation did not end with SOPA'...

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America's Troubling Impact On Internet Freedom

Foreign Policy | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Internet Freedom, World News

American-made technology has turned up around the Middle East and North Africa over the past year -- from Syria to Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, from pre-r...

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UN's ITU Could Become Next Internet Freedom Threat

Edward J. Black | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Internet Freedom, Pipa, Sopa, Internet Censorship, Icann, Free Speech, Cyber Warfare, Cybersecurity, Internet Filtering, Un, Internet Governance, Technology News
Edward J. Black

Some of the lessons learned from the dangers of legislation like SOPA should be the need for forbearance and a well-researched, multi-stakeholder derived policy to avoid unintended consequences.

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Keeping SOPA Measures Out of Trade Agreements ACTA, TPP

Edward J. Black | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Copyright Infringement, Pipa, Piracy, Trade. SOPA, Internet Freedom, Economy, Internet Censorship, Acta, Tpp, Innovation, Technology, Technology News
Edward J. Black

Internet users realized during the debate over SOPA and its companion bill, PIPA, that because they were not at the table, they were on the menu. Vowing 'never again,' they have thus set their sights on ACTA.

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Arizona State Censors Change.org [UPDATE]

Josh Levy | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Internet Freedom, College, Censorship, Net Neutrality, Free Speech, College News
Josh Levy

Arizona State University is going after free speech. If it gets away with this, other universities could be emboldened to follow suit. We must defend ASU students' right to speak online.

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The KerPUNK Festival and the Power of the Internet

Melissa Webster | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Green Day, Punk Rock, Sopa, The Phenomenauts, Bryan McPherson, Fever Charm, Prima Donna, Kepi Ghoulie, Larry Livermore, 12 Bores, Adam Bones, Bobby Joe Ebola, The Kerpunk Festival, Mystic Knights and the Cobras, Dookie G Day, Dingwalls, The Pipeline, The Rhythm Factory, The Paperjets, Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet Freedom, Music, Tony-Anastasi, Video, Entertainment News
Melissa Webster

The Festival was officially named by punk rock icon Larry Livermore, the music producer credited with discovering Green Day.

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Protecting Internet Democracy

Brian Fox | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Google, Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet, Internet Privacy, Internet Freedom, Eli Pariser, Pipa, Online Freedom, Online Privacy, Sopa, Syria, Technology News
Brian Fox

The best way to protect and even promote democracy is to protect the freedom of the Internet. While SOPA has created a stir publicly, we must be vigilant about even some of the "conveniences" we are presented with, lest we all break the law of unintended consequences.

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21st Century Statecraft: Forging U.S. Digital Diplomacy

Victoria Esser | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Internet Freedom, Innovation Twitter Government, State Department Internet, State Department Cyberspace, State Department Twitter, Hillary Clinton Twitter, Twitter Internet Freedom, Technology News
Victoria Esser

Social media also offers a powerful way for the State Department to listen to foreign publics and better understand their needs and aspirations.

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Thanks, Take Aways From Internet Revolution Over SOPA, PIPA

Edward J. Black | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Internet Freedom, Pipa, Piracy, Copyright, Sopa, Internet Censorship, Mpaa, Wyden, Lofgren, Hollywood, Issa, Politics News
Edward J. Black

The hundreds of thousand of calls to Congress and millions of petition signatures opposing two controversial bills, SOPA and PIPA, have been character...

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Beyond SOPA: A New Birth of Internet Freedom

Patrick Ruffini | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Internet Blackout, Politics, Internet, Sopa, Internet Freedom, Pipa, Technology News
Patrick Ruffini

For libertarians, there is new hope in the power of a self-organizing and self-regulating Internet to stand up for itself against invasive governments and powerful legacy industries that seek to manage our options as consumers.

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Why We Go Black

Timothy Karr | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Internet Blackout, Pipa, Sopa Pipa, Sopa, SOPA Bill, Rupert Murdoch, PIPA Bill, Barack Obama, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Technology News
Timothy Karr

Today's nationwide protest of Internet blacklist legislation is part of a brewing movement to keep control over the Internet out of the hands of corporations and governments. It's a struggle that puts Internet users before information gatekeepers.

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Author Of SOPA Is A Copyright Violator

VICE | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Lamar Smith Copyright Violator, Stop Online Piracy Act, Intellectual Property, Lamar Smith, Lamar Smith Sopa, Internet Freedom, Online Piracy, Copyright Law, Sopa, Politics News

US Congressman and poor-toupee-color-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA, as I'm sure you know, is the shady ...

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A Biometric Tower of Babel

Shelly Yachimovich | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Databases, Internet Freedom, Biometrics, Biometric Identification, Israel Hack, Surveillance, Online Privacy, Israel, Credit Card Theft, Privacy, Internet Security, Internet Security Threats, Israel Internet Security, Israel Cyber Attack, Israel Saudi Arabia Hack, Technology News
Shelly Yachimovich

The unrestricted flow of information over the Internet and social networks provides an opportunity to one of mankind's most glorious times. If we don't protect the public, this could easily become a mean of chaos, repression and dominance.

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What You Need to Know About the Stop Online Piracy Act in 2012

Alexander Howard | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Internet Freedom, Sopa, Internet, Stop Online Privacy Act, Protect IP, Protect Ip Act, Intellectual Property, Congress and Sopa, Sopa Information 2012, Internet Censorship, Video, Politics News
Alexander Howard

Whether the broadcast networks choose to cover it or not will matter less next year than it would have even a decade ago. The Internet will drive awareness of these bills in 2012 in a way that simply wasn't possible before this moment in history.

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #9: Beware Online 'Filter Bubbles'

Eli Pariser | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Internet, Tedtalks, Video, tedtalks2011, #18ideas, Internet Censorship, Data Mining, Google, Internet Freedom, Technology News
Eli Pariser

2011-12-14-pariseretedtedtedtedtefe.jpgThere's a shift in how information is flowing online -- and it's invisible. But if we don't pay attention to it, it could become a real problem.

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