Nir Boms

Journalist, Writer, Middle East Analyst

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Slavery and Freedom on the Internet

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Freedom and the Internet

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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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 video and several chilling [...]

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