By Nir Boms, The Jerusalem Post
Aug. 21, 2007
The Internet - the free and open Web of ideas - has become the new symbol of freedom, or at least one of its more visible prophets. Howard Rheingold, a scholar of the early Internet era, predicted a utopian vision where the “electronic agora” would change the public [...]
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Slavery and Freedom on the Internet
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Freedom and the Internet
Tags: China·freedom·Human Rights·Internet·Iran·Terror
Syria and Tunisia: Enemies of the Web
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Freedom and the Internet, Middle East, UN, Voices of Democracy
By Nir Boms
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2004
Last month, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the creation of a new group to exert control over what has remained a rare bastion of freedom: the Internet.
The group’s forum is the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Its 40 members, all appointed by Annan, include Cuba, China, [...]
Tags: Internet·Middle East·UN