[liberationtech] Ethiopia's surveillance state

Interesting piece on Ethiopia's surveillance state ... http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/ethiopia-s-borderlesscyberespionage.html ETHIOPIA’S BORDERLESS CYBERESPIONAGE UNICEF ETHIOPIA / SEWUNET Chinese- and European-made spyware is enabling Addis Ababa to silence dissent April 7,

[liberationtech] The Internet, where languages go to die?

An interesting piece on the use of less popular languages on the Internet ... Best, David -- The Internet, where languages go to die? by Ross Perlinhttp://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/p/ross-perlin.html @RossPerlinhttp://www.twitter.com/RossPerlin March 18, 2014 Forget the triumphant

[liberationtech] Big data ethics

Here's a nice piece by Neil Richards and Jonathan King on developing norms for dealing with big data ... http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/gigabytes-gone-wild.html The values we build or fail to build into our new digital structures will define us. If we don’t balance the human

[liberationtech] Dan Froomkin on NSA surveillance in Al Jazeera

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/9/nsa-surveillancesnowdenprivacydebate.html Politicians, press dodge crucial debate on surveillance by Dan Froomkinhttp://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/f/dan-froomkin.html @froomkinhttp://www.twitter.com/froomkin October 9, 2013 6:00AM ET Commentary:

[liberationtech] Brazil Looks to Break from U.S.-Centric Internet

Interesting ... but is this even possible? http://world.time.com/2013/09/18/brazil-looks-to-break-from-u-s-centric-internet/ [AJAM] David V. Johnson Online Opinion Editor 435 Hudson Street, Suite 400 New York, NY 10014 Direct line: (917) 819-8470 http://america.aljazeera.com/ Twitter:

[liberationtech] Anonymous’ Secret Presence In The U.S. Army

Very interesting interview with an active-duty Army captain who claims to be part of Anonymous ... and he says there are others in the military like him. http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/anonymous-secret-presence-in-the-us-army [AJAM] David V. Johnson Online Opinion Editor 435 Hudson

[liberationtech] Anonymous’ Secret Presence In The U.S. Army

Interesting interview with an active-duty Army captain who claims to be part of Anonymous ... http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/anonymous-secret-presence-in-the-us-army [AJAM] David V. Johnson Online Opinion Editor 435 Hudson Street, Suite 400 New York, NY 10014 Direct line: 917 819

[liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

https://lavabit.com/https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=C-JjrgIYEEuVtop4L5ekkprZkHoJaNAI1emSTsdeFmPgXa3gmIunVE-6BLYJ-qLs7Uy3YNIHo0k.URL=https%3a%2f%2flavabit.com%2f My Fellow Users, I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people

Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

I think the following is unfair: * Let me take an example from the article. Morozov ridicules a 24 year old guy who is trying to develop an app to help with obesity. Well, why? There is a good chance it won't work, just as there is a good chance the most well thought out initiatives won't work

[liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

Dear all, I highly recommend this really excellent interview between Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov about his new book, *To Save Everything, Click Here *... http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas/whats-wrong-technological-fixes Best wishes, David -- David V. Johnson Web Editor Boston

Re: [liberationtech] NSA flag terms

Speaking of NSA flagging, I thought this piece was very funny ... http://www.warscapes.com/literature/cryptogams-nsa On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote: From: Khannea Suntzu khannea.sun...@gmail.com This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that

[liberationtech] MOOC'd

Dear all, We just ran a package of stories on MOOCs that may be of interest to list members. First, we have Stanford's Rob Reich correcting some of the excessive claims of proponents and critics ... http://bostonreview.net/us/much-ado-about-moocs Second, we have former Princeton President

[liberationtech] The Day Wikipedia Went Dark

Happy SOPA anniversary! Ed Lee remembers the Wikipedia blackout and looks at the current state of SOPA-light bills. Among other points, he argues that the protests were an instance of popular constitutionalism—i.e. of the people, rather than representatives or courts, determining the content and

Re: [liberationtech] might be of interest... zombie tweets in Azerbaijan

That reminds me of work that journalist Ken Silverstein did on Azerbaijan's aggressive lobbying efforts (I helped with some of it) ... http://harpers.org/blog/2008/07/worldwide-strategic-shakedown-partners/ http://harpers.org/blog/2008/07/lobbyist-arranged-op-eds/ On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:36

Re: [liberationtech] robocalls to voters regarding voter picture IDs and Wednesday voting in MA

Speaking of voting problems, Harvard's Archon Fung has started a crowd-sourcing project like Ushahidi to collect information for election monitoring. Check out MyFairElection.com And check out our interview with him for more details ...