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Ellery Roberts Biddle

Editor at large for Advox · Joined 13 October 2010 · 127 posts

I joined Global Voices in 2010 and co-led Global Voices’ Advox project (advox.org) from 2013-2019. I am originally from Philadelphia, US and have lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Havana, Cuba. Follow me on Twitter or visit my website to learn more about me.

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Netizen Report: Domestic worker abuses in the Gulf expose tech companies’ failures to protect human rights

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

10 November 2019

Netizen Report: How are protests in Lebanon affecting digital rights?

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

28 October 2019

Netizen Report: Iraq and Ecuador face network shutdowns amid public protests

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

11 October 2019

Netizen Report: Human rights groups demand justice for Jamal Khashoggi, one year after his murder

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

4 October 2019

Netizen Report: Anti-corruption protests across Egypt trigger internet blockages, arrests

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

26 September 2019

Netizen Report: Pro-government doxxing campaigns rock Hong Kong, Serbia

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

20 September 2019

Netizen Report: Malicious attack takes Wikipedia offline

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

13 September 2019

Netizen Report: Two years after fleeing military attacks in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees face mobile blackout in Bangladesh

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

6 September 2019

Netizen Report: Critic calls Indonesia’s provincial internet shutdown ‘racist’

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

29 August 2019

Netizen Report: The shutdown in Kashmir continues

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

22 August 2019

Netizen Report: Journalists are under fire from Cambodia to Cuba — and beyond

Technology and human rights news from around the world.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Netizen Report Team

9 August 2019

Is Cuba trying to outlaw independent media? A new decree will prohibit foreign web hosting

It is also illegal to host "news media" sites locally.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

5 July 2019

Netizen Report: Widespread throttling puts social media out of reach in Kazakhstan

The incident coincided with planned demonstrations by opposition leaders.

Written by Netizen Report Team

11 May 2019

Why is Twitter blocking state accounts in Venezuela?

Blocking public speech could contribute to the information crisis.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

3 May 2019

‘Envision a new war': the Syrian Archive, corporate censorship and the struggle to preserve public history online

Images of war keep disappearing from Silicon Valley.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

1 May 2019

Benin sees internet blackout on election day

Activists were dismayed but not shocked by the outage.

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike, Ellery Roberts Biddle

29 April 2019

#WelcomeHomeAlaa: Egyptian revolution activist Alaa Abd El Fattah released after five years in prison

Family and allies rejoiced at the blogger's release.

Written by Afef Abrougui, Ellery Roberts Biddle

29 March 2019

Charged with ‘instigating crimes’, journalist Luis Carlos Diaz is released in Venezuela

Diaz has been forbidden from speaking about his ordeal

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Laura Vidal

13 March 2019

Digital journalist Luis Carlos Diaz is missing in Venezuela

Luis Carlos is "one of the most visible faces of dissident journalism in Venezuela".

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

12 March 2019

Blackout in Venezuela: How long will it last?

For nearly 24 hours, most of Venezuela has been without electricity.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

8 March 2019

Venezuelans see the politics of humanitarian aid play out in online attacks

A unique and technically sophisticated attack this week targeted VoluntariosxVenezuela, an opposition-aligned humanitarian aid website.

Written by Laura Vidal, Ellery Roberts Biddle

15 February 2019

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