Turkish court recognizes insult over Twitter as criminal offense from Hurriyet Daily News An Istanbul court has judged a Twitter user?s insult toward a Turkish model to be a criminal offense. Russia’s #1 Netizen Heads to Trial from Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock Pussy Riot, eat your heart out. Later this week, on … Read more
The Copyright Alert System FAQ from EFF.org Updates by Daniel Nazer It?s been a long time coming, but the copyright surveillance machine known as the Copyright Alert System (CAS) ? aka ?Six Strikes? ? has finally launched. CAS is an agreement between major media corporations and large Internet Service Providers to monitor peer-to-peer networks for … Read more
The Demographics of Social Media Users ? 2012 from Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports Young adults are more likely than older adults to use social media. Women, African-Americans, and Latinos show high interest in sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. A victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge by leyla keser berber Settlement of litigation between … Read more
Iranian presidential candidate does Reddit AMA from FP Passport by Neha Paliwal The Enduring Power of Radio in the Digital Age from Mashable! by Matt Petronzio Did Terrorists Use Twitter to Increase Situational Awareness? from iRevolution by Patrick Meier Those who are still skeptical about the value of Twitter for real-time situational awareness during … Read more
Mega hits 100,000 registered users in one hour as Kim Dotcom teases MPAA with ?MegaMovie? screenshot from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm Update: Mega crossed the 250,000 user mark and massive usage has brought the site to a crawl. So far, Mega has won the day. After calling Barack Obama out on Twitter, Kim … Read more
The Internet of Things Has Arrived ? And So Have Massive Security Issues from Wired Top Stories by Wired Opinion Internet. Things. Add the ?Of? and suddenly these three simple words become a magic meme — the theme we?ve been hearing all week at CES, the oft-heralded prediction that may have finally arrived in 2013. … Read more
Good and bad reasons to be worried about WCIT from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT, pronounced ?wicket?) opened Monday in Dubai. If you?re heard about the conference, it?s likely because many articulate and smart proponents of an open internet have been waving arms and warning of the … Read more
Some Things Never Change: Governments Still Present Biggest Threat to Open Internet from EFF.org Updates by Jillian C. York Some things change, but others stay the same. While the types of threats facing Internet users worldwide have diversified over the past few years, from targeted malware to distributed denial of service attacks, one thing … Read more
Extensive Torture Kills Iranian Blogger in Prison from The Blog Iranian netizen Sattar Beheshti is believed dead six days after he was arrested and taken into custody in Tehran. Beheshti was believed to have died under torture while he was being interrogated. Iranian blogger who was tortured and died in custody is buried from Boing … Read more
How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow ZDNet’s Rupert Goodwins is going blind. Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology … Read more
Congress releases report on the effects of patent trolls, could this mean litigation? from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds from Wired Top Stories by Ryan Singel A seemingly rogue copyright complaint brought down the Obama campaign’s live feed of its own convention Tuesday night, just minutes … Read more
Sansürün bahanesi bu kez nefret söylemi Yaygın medyayı çeşitli yollarla baskı altında tutan Hükümet, halkın tepkisini en rahat dile getirebildiği sosyal medyayı sansürleme derdinde. Bu kez sansüre gerekçe son dönemde artan nefret söylemi. Kamuoyunun bildiği gibi 20 bini aşkın sitenin engellenmesinin bahanesi çocuk ve aileyi korumaktı. Çıkarılan 5651 sayılı yasa ile youtube, wordpress, blogspot, googlesites … Read more
Çevrimiçi ifade özgürlüğü İç meselelerle dış meseleler arasındaki kalın çizgilerin çoktandır silikleştiği bir dünyadayız artık. İletişim olanakları, kapalı kapılar ve demir perdeler ardında kotarılan karanlık işleri bundan böyle anında dünya âleme faş ediyor. Güncel örnek: Suriye. 1982?de baba Esad kimsenin ruhu duymadan 20.000 vatandaşını Hama?da katlederken otuz yıl sonra oğul Esad?ın zulmü canlı yayında. Temmuz … Read more
IFLA 2012 Conference Session 75 Sleepwalking into a control society? Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources. 12 August 2012 13:45 – 15:45 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI [View the story “Our #wlic2012 FAIFE panel \”Sleepwalking into a control society?\” Storified: … Read more
DO PLEASE TAKE IT AS AN EARLY DRAFT… Response: New media control in Europe -Erkan Saka, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, School of Communication Intro: I am mostly knowledgeable about the Turkish Case. I will add the most recent developments to my piece already published in FAIFE site. My concrete examples will be from where … Read more