Re: [liberationtech] Internet blackouts

2015-04-28 Thread Brian Conley
My colleagues in Burundi report difficulties with whatsapp and some with facebook, but twitter functioning as expected. On Apr 28, 2015 4:01 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Sources in Togo report an Internet blackout. Probably related to expecting problems after reporting results

[liberationtech] A way to Help to Earthquake Victims in Nepal

2015-04-28 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Yvette Zepeda yvet...@stanford.edu An East Palo Alto community member has a connection to the Nepalese community that endured the recent quake. Below is a list of items they are collecting to send back to Nepal. If you can help or have questions, please contact Richa Sharma at

[liberationtech] Internet blackouts

2015-04-28 Thread Richard Brooks
Sources in Togo report an Internet blackout. Probably related to expecting problems after reporting results from the recent election. Sources in Burundi also expecting a blackout as a result of ongoing pro-democracy protests. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google.

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-28 Thread Nick Ashton-Hart
Done! On 28 Apr 2015, at 22:12, Indiver Badal i...@indiver.com wrote: Hi Nick Sure, please add me to the list. I'm ready to assist in any way I can. Thanks Indiver On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 12:12 AM Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro mailto:nash...@consensus.pro wrote: + Indiver

[liberationtech] ME Tech tools for data collection in Repressive Environments

2015-04-28 Thread Liz Lemon
Hi All, I am conducting some research on ME tech tools that can be used for data collection in repressive environments. Would appreciate hearing about what works and doesn't and know what is being used in the field. I have come across a ton of ME tech based tools, but they are predominantly only

[liberationtech] Why the EU would be wrong to sanction Google - World Economic Forum

2015-04-28 Thread Andrea St
Dear LibTech List, I wrote for the WEF about Google and EU antitrust case. Feedback and comments are welcome: https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/04/why-the-eu-would-be-wrong-to-sanction-google/ best, A -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public

Re: [liberationtech] Why the EU would be wrong to sanction Google - World Economic Forum

2015-04-28 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
What? Is it wrong to sanction monopolies? Are we in Rockefeller's Paradise, or just nicely settled with Our iPhones in greedy Silicon Valley? On Apr 28, 2015 7:07 PM, Andrea St and...@gmail.com wrote: Dear LibTech List, I Dear LibTech List, I wrote for the WEF about Google and EU antitrust

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-28 Thread Indiver Badal
Hi Nick Sure, please add me to the list. I'm ready to assist in any way I can. Thanks Indiver On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 12:12 AM Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro wrote: + Indiver Dear Bill, I've certainly experienced that dynamic before. I'm very glad to hear that families are all OK.

[liberationtech] The Google cookie that came out of nowhere

2015-04-28 Thread carlo von lynX
Juicy content from Ashkan Soltani further below. On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 01:26:29PM -0700, Al Billings wrote: If you're the kind of person paranoid about safebrowing pings and similar, yeah, you should pull the tinfoil hat tighter and block all things. What I said in the original posting:

[liberationtech] Twitter Has Become the Channel of Choice for Quick Government Interaction and Six-Second Soundbites

2015-04-28 Thread Lüfkens , Matthias
Twitter Has Become the Channel of Choice for Quick Government Interaction and Six-Second Soundbites Annual Twitter Study Finds Governments Becoming Savvier in the use of the Social Media Channel Geneva, 28 April 2015 - Over the past four years, Twitter has become the social media channel of

[liberationtech] Fwd: Swinburne Internet Policy Workshop - Melbourne (Australia) 45 Oct 2015 - Call for Proposals

2015-04-28 Thread Angela Daly
*Swinburne Internet Policy WorkshopauIGF academic pre-eventSunday 4th Monday 5th October 2015Melbourne, Australia* *Call for proposals* Deadline: Friday 5th June Notification of acceptance: Monday 29th June We are pleased to announce the inaugural Swinburne Internet Policy Workshop, organised

Re: [liberationtech] The Google cookie that came out of nowhere

2015-04-28 Thread Aymeric Vitte
+1 for the PS and the rest I don't want to bother with this project again, but here [1] is explained part of what the browsers are doing, we can see that they send http/https request outside (example 2), but that's not enough of course, some of them like Chrome do inject by default some