Active e-skirmishes
Ethan Zuckerman describes how activists are using new networked tools to circumvent the authorities’ restrictions. These include:
- Zimbabwean e-cards commemorating the forced evictions of Murambatsvina
- Tunisian on-line prison maps, adapted from Google Maps to show the location of prisons and the profiles of political prisoners
- Egyptian Twitter used to dispatch message from human rights activist
- A Chinese Great Firewall Image builder as a tool for putting banned words into images, therefore circumventing on-line censoring
Needless to say, Global Voices Online continues to offer a platform for worldwide bloggers who want to bypass mainstream media and report about their countries.
These are just the first skirmishes.
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Is this an E skirmish, by your definition?
pavellawrence - May 23, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Absolutely. I’ll post today. Well spotted!
Alberto Masetti-Zannini - May 24, 2007 at 10:16 am