Latest posts by Rebecca MacKinnon
WSIS: Defending Freedom of Speech in Tunisia
Despite the odds, we managed to pull off our “Expression Under Repression” seminar here at the World Summit For Internet and Society. This was largely thanks to the strong spine of our sponsors, the Dutch NGO Hivos, who fended off a phalanx of plainclothes police who tried to shut us...
WSIS in Tunisia: governance issue settled, free speech issue boils
Here at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, a compromise has been reached on internet governance. Now the spotlight turns to free speech issues and the Tunisian government's heavy-handedness against dissidents and journalists. In addition to the copious news reporting, bloggers are hard at work. Be sure...
China: Blogger Conference Day1
China's first ever bloggers conference has successfully finished day 1. Blogger Angelo Embuldeniya has taken all the live IRC English-language notes and screen grabs from the live Chinese videocast and put them on a special blog. (It will soon be on a wordpress blog here.)
South Asian earthquake blogging highlights
As our South Asia editor Neha Viswanathan wrote yesterday, the Sea Eat bloggers who brought you up-to-date infromation about victims, relief efforts, and donation opportunities for the 2004 Tsunami are doing the same thing for the South Asian Earthquake with the South Asia Quake Help blog. They're doing a fabulous...
Tunisia: Jailed activist sews mouth shut
Tunisian activist Neila Charchour Hachicha reports that Mohamed Abbou, jailed for criticizing Tunisia's president in an article on the internet, has sewed his own mouth shut in protest.
Tunisian online protest blocked
As Tunisia prepares to host the controversial World Summit on the Information Society in November, Tunisian opposition activist Neila Charchour Hachicha informs Global Voices that the online freedom of speech protest site launched by Tunisians on Monday, www.yezzi.org has already been blocked by the Tunisian authorities. The online protest, called...
Bali bombings: Bloggers respond
Bali Blog has an eyewitness account from a man named Nick who was not far from the blast. Javajive (written by an American living in Java) says Indonesian TV has been playing the amateur pre-blast restaurant video over and over again: The T.V. stations have put together one of their...
Join Our Live Chat! Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber-Dissidents
Update: The IRC chat was a great success, with three dozen participants from around the world (China, Malaysia, Tunisia, Bahrain, Japan, Germany, France and Canada, just to name a few…) The transcript is available here if you'd like to see what transpired. Coming out of the conversation are a new...
Comments problems
Sincerest apologies to anybody who tried to post comments over the past two days. This was caused by an unfortunate technical mess-up on my part while attempting to block a bad spammer. The bad news: If you tried to post something and it didn't appear, unfortunately it has been lost....
It's Out! Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber-Dissidents
Reporters Without Borders has given Global Voices a sneak peak at the Handbook For Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents before its official Thursday release. Click here to download the full booklet. Thanks to Julien Pain for his hard work on this project. It is a valuable gift to the world's bloggers. Lately...
Best of Blogs: Nominate your favorites!
Grateful thanks to the esteemed Dr. David Weinberger for nominating Global Voices for the Best of Blogs Awards. The contest is sponsored jointly by Deutsche Welle and Reporters Without Borders. There are 13 categories to nominate and vote. Here is how BoB team describes the award: “Best Journalistic Weblog honors...
China: blogging with Chinese characteristics
EastSouthWestNorth compares blogging in China to the U.S. and Hong Kong. He explains why internet bulletin boards are more influential than blogs in China.
Vietnam: Street vendors
Vietnamese God has some fun photos of the “walking clothes shops” of Northern Vietnam.
China: State Secrets
Danwei has a rather cynical (and somewhat racy) post on what is and isn't a Chinese state secret.
South Korea: Blaming the U.S.
Marmot points to a South Korean opinion poll revealing that 53 percent of South Koreans polled believe the U.S. is most responsible for the continued division of the Korean Peninsula.
Philippines: Transport Strike
Metroblogging Manila believes that the latest transport strike is an exercise in futility thanks to the energy situation.
Malaysia: Mahatir critiques Iraq war
Jeff Ooi at Screenshots has links to lots of commentary Dr Mahathir's speech at a human rights conference last Friday where Western diplomats diplomats walked out on him after he criticized the U.S. and U.K for invading Iraq.
Indonesia: 500 days of blogging
Jakartass celebrates his 500th day of blogging.
China: Murder Case
ESWN translates an article about “hottest subject on the Chinese Internet recently:” The Case of Wang Binyu.
Singapore: online sedition
From a Singapore Angle rounds up blogger coverage of the two bloggers charged with sedition for racist remarks online. There is also a follow-up post here. mr brown has more views here. Omeka Na Huria asks: are they being made an example?
South Korea: Bloggers critique Roh
Mingi Hyun of Asia's Secrurity Perils points to an editorial arguing that President Roh tends to “abuse South Korean nationalism”, written for the English edition of OhMyNews by fellow blogger Bernard Moon.
