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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, [...]

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Democracy Web

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Freedom and the Internet, Middle East, Voices of Democracy

  August 23rd, 2004 By Nir Boms/Erick Stakelbeck While the war on terror has left scores of Islamist terrorists worldwide on the run, there is still one place where they – or at least, their message – can find safe refuge: the Internet.  In the past two weeks alone, a beheading, a graphic terrorist training [...]

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