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// 05.08.2008 at 2:13 pm // Have your say »

Blogging threatens Castro’s control of media in Cuba

Generacion Y is a blog ran by cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez that recently made it to Time Magazine Top 100 most influential people.
More important, under the nose of a regime that has never tolerated dissent, Sánchez has practiced what paper-bound journalists in her country cannot: freedom of speech. The pieces she has been clandestinely sending […]

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// 05.02.2008 at 2:58 pm // Have your say »

The mechanics of grassroots censorship.

I am constantly rambling that the internet is not necessarily a good thing for democracy. I believe, and here reiterate, that the web is just another social tool like the radio, television, book or telephone. What is novel about the web is that it has broken the strangle hold that the corporate world has had […]

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