I believe this is the original https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Good%20media,%20bad%20politics%20New%20media%20and%20the%20Syrian%20conflict.pdf <https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Good%20media,%20bad%20politics%20New%20media%20and%20the%20Syrian%20conflict.pdf>
—YL > On Mar 24, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Patrick: > >> I'd love to see the exact reference if you can find it. > > James Harkin, »Neue Medien in Syrien«, translated by Bernhard Schmid. > Lettre International 104 (spring 2014 edition), p. 33. Sadly, I have > not found the English original online. > > Relevant quotes are: > > »Die amerikanische Botschaft in Damaskus hatte ihn [Amjad Siofy] und > seine Freunde mit Proxy-Software und Satellitentelefonen versorgt, mit > denen sich die Internetüberwachung des Regimes umgehen ließ. Man habe > die Sachen über eine Organisation mit dem Namen Damascus Revolutionary > Council verteilt, sagte er mir, aber das sei „nur Theater“ gewesen; es > sollte nur niemand mitbekommen, daß Amerika bei der Bewaffnung der > syrischen Revolution aushalf.« > > Approximate back-translation: “The U.S. embassy in Damascus supplied > him [Amjad Siofy] and his friends with proxy software and satellite > phones, with which they could evade the Internet surveillance of the > regime. He told me that the items were distributed by an organisation > named Damascus Revolutionary Council, but this was ‘mere theater’; > nobody should notice that the United States helped the Syrian > revolution by arming it.” > > There is a longer section in the article later on (»Katz und Maus«, > p. 35) which discusses the Office for Syrian Opposition Support > (OSOS), non-lethal aid (»nichttödlicher Hilfe«), and the supply of > satellite phones, high-tech walkie-talkies, proxy sofware, etc. to the > tune of 123 million USD in 2013, mostly to the Free Syrian Army. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected].
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