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Using an hour of Internet a week costs you 18 cuc per month, almost 75% of the average salary.  Cuba Increases Internet Access From Designated Public Centers

Using an hour of Internet a week costs you 18 cuc per month, almost 75% of the average salary. 

Cuba Increases Internet Access From Designated Public Centers

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In the Internet age, the greatest long-term threat to a genuinely citizen-centric society — a world in which technology and government serve citizens instead of the other way around — looks less like Orwell’s 1984, and more like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: a world in which our desire for security, entertainment, and material comfort is manipulated to the point that we all voluntarily and eagerly submit to subjugation

China’s biggest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group announced  on April 29, 2013 that it would acquire an 18 percent stake in Sina Weibo for 586 million US dollars, a deal that could reshape the country’s Internet landscape. Sina Weibo is China’s most popular Twitter-like microblogging platform with over 500 million user accounts, but it has yet to find a profitable business model.

How Social Commerce Tightens China’s Grip on the Internet

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When they try to silence you, be loud.

Saudi Arabia’s second largest telecommunication company, Mobily, has reached out to privacy advocate Moxie Marlinspike for help in surveillance of its customers. Marlinspike published the email exchange.

Saudi Mobile Company Seeks Privacy Advocate’s Help to Spy on Clients

A documentary about the impressive efforts of Archive.org to preserve the long term history of the Internet.

penamerican: Brazilian indians go online to demand their rights are protected Despite their poor economic and living conditions, Brazil’s indigenous peoples are increasingly using the internet to make their struggle for rights known to the world. Historically, native Brazilians have been deprived of proper citizenship, first by slavery and the loss of their homeland in the 16th century and, after that, by prejudice, impoverishment, the loss of cultural traces and the disappearance of entire populations. But, the emergence of the internet has allowed Brazilian Indians access to a new era of free speech and civil activity.

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Brazilian indians go online to demand their rights are protected

Despite their poor economic and living conditions, Brazil’s indigenous peoples are increasingly using the internet to make their struggle for rights known to the world.

Historically, native Brazilians have been deprived of proper citizenship, first by slavery and the loss of their homeland in the 16th century and, after that, by prejudice, impoverishment, the loss of cultural traces and the disappearance of entire populations. But, the emergence of the internet has allowed Brazilian Indians access to a new era of free speech and civil activity.

Title: Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past
Date: February 26, 12:30pm ET
Presenter: Jon Penney

This talk examines more closely some of the international law and politics of censorship resistance activities through three case studies involving past global communications censorship and information conflicts.

While suspicions about money and sponsorship plague all Russian politics, the RuNet is a particularly contentious battleground. The rift between the oppositionist and pro-government camps is a hotbed of accusations about illicit funding, with each side desperately professing its own honesty and insisting on the other’s deception.
Secret Money, Hacks, and Politics of Russian Web

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“internet poses numerous dangers such as terrorism, economic crimes and the distribution of pornography. Cambodia has issued a circular banning internet cafes within 500 meters of schools or educational buildings. Effectively the ban would lead to the closure of almost all internet cafes in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Pen.  Read: Cambodia Bans Internet Cafes Near Schools

“internet poses numerous dangers such as terrorism, economic crimes and the distribution of pornography.

Cambodia has issued a circular banning internet cafes within 500 meters of schools or educational buildings. Effectively the ban would lead to the closure of almost all internet cafes in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Pen. 

Read: Cambodia Bans Internet Cafes Near Schools

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On Thursday, the US-based internet connectivity monitoring firm, Renesys, reported that internet was cut off in Syria. Starting at 10.26am GMT on Thursday, the company reported that all of Syria’s 84 IP address blocks were inaccessible, “effectively removing the country from the Internet.” Renesys also posted the above graph which seems to show a nationwide total internet shutdown. The #InternetCutInSyria could mean one of 2 things: Either a bad sign of things to come or a regime that has completely run out of moves. Read more: Syria Plunged Into Total Info Darkness

On Thursday, the US-based internet connectivity monitoring firm, Renesys, reported that internet was cut off in Syria. Starting at 10.26am GMT on Thursday, the company reported that all of Syria’s 84 IP address blocks were inaccessible, “effectively removing the country from the Internet.” Renesys also posted the above graph which seems to show a nationwide total internet shutdown.

The #InternetCutInSyria could mean one of 2 things: Either a bad sign of things to come or a regime that has completely run out of moves.

Read more: Syria Plunged Into Total Info Darkness

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Democrazy 痴心妄想 - Crazy desire [for democracy].Shitizen 屁民 - People who only have the right to shit [no other citizen rights].Innernet 中國互聯網 - Chinese internet [which is for internal connection]. Antizen 蟻民 - people who are like ants [being stepped upon]. Gunverment 槍桿子政權 - government rule by means of guns. A list of newly invented “English terms” that take on the political culture in China with satire, have been circulating Chinese social media recently. Read the complete list here. 

Democrazy 痴心妄想 - Crazy desire [for democracy].
Shitizen 屁民 - People who only have the right to shit [no other citizen rights].
Innernet 中國互聯網 - Chinese internet [which is for internal connection].

Antizen 蟻民 - people who are like ants [being stepped upon].

Gunverment 槍桿子政權 - government rule by means of guns.

A list of newly invented “English terms” that take on the political culture in China with satire, have been circulating Chinese social media recently. 

Read the complete list here. 

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