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While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services.

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Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

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The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

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It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.

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The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.

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After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

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The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

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Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.

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The Internet is a politically contested space.

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Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 16th, 1969

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