Comments on: Opening Remarks at Expression Under Repression

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:21 +0000

This sounds like a wild ride…wow.

By: Weblogsky

Weblogsky — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:32:52 +0000

Expression Under Repression

Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon set up an ‘Expression under Repression’ panel at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia, and their Tunisian hosts tried to shut the discussion down… but they ignored the cancellation and held th…

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » WSIS: Defending Freedom of Speech in Tunisia

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:28:06 +0000

[...] Speakers included Malaysian blogger Jeff Ooi, Chinese blogger Isaac Mao, Iranian blogger Hossein Derakshan, and Zimbabwean internet activist Taurai Maduna. Ethan Zuckerman blogged about the circumstances under which we opened the seminar and my opening remarks. (See my own pre-seminar notes here.) He also blogged some of the presentations: Isaac and Taurai. Jeff Ooi spoke eloquently about how blogging is helping to democratize a media environment in Malaysia in which the media has traditionally been dominated by the ruling party and its allies. [...]

By: WorldChanging: Another World Is Here

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:50:13 +0000

Ethan’s In Tunisia

Ethan Zuckerman is in Tunis for the World Summit on the Information Society conference, where’s both an observer and a participant. He’s blogging his observations…

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:35:08 +0000

Regarding: “The goal is not the elimination of filtering entirely – we want filters to block things like viruses and spam.”

This is why one should distinguish “FILTERING” (the user doesn’t want it, like viruses and spam), from “CENSORWARE” (an authority prohibits the user from it – sex, tibet, falun gong, etc). Otherwise, this confusion occurs repeatedly.

The censorware companies getting their blacklists called “filters”, was a sweeping PR victory.