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    Default Defeat Internet Censorship

    Older article (Nov 07), but a first read for me. I'd be interested in hearing feedback on this from people who are much more active in this field than I am, and thus actually able to comment intelligently on the subject.

    Defeat Internet Censorship: Overview of Advanced Technologies and Products
    ....This article aims to provide a non-technical overview of the leading and most influential technologies used to circumvent Internet censorship in repressive regimes. We will also discuss the software packages that were found to be most effective in countering the blockage for endusers. Thus, this article will document the state of the art in this field, and provide practical guidance for users who need to make judicious choices of the best tools available for their protection.

    We will use the censorship in China as the primary example because the most advanced censorship technologies have been deployed and tested there. The circumvention tools to defeat the censorship in China will work equally well or better in other countries......

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    Default Leveraging Technology for Peace

    We have all seen numerous examples of how our foes leverage information technology to spread their message of hate and violence. There are parallel efforts to leverage the same technology to spread the message of peace and tolerance.

    One example at the link below, please post others as you come across them.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45SOdlIa4xs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Moore View Post
    We have all seen numerous examples of how our foes leverage information technology to spread their message of hate and violence. There are parallel efforts to leverage the same technology to spread the message of peace and tolerance.

    One example at the link below, please post others as you come across them.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45SOdlIa4xs
    Wow, that was nauseatingly saccharine.

    But to the point, "peace" activists haven't been starving for outlets to connect with one another since the Age of Sail, and they haven't been short-changed when it comes to using whatever tool allows them to do their long-distance minority/ecumenical/tree/whale hugging. Right now, Googling "world peace" and "sustainable" (activists love those terms, right?) with the most popular social, wiki, and blog engines returns almost 900 results.
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    that was nauseatingly saccharine
    True to an extent, but an advertising piece advertising peace so what do you expect. The story behind the site is there are a few initiatives like this in the Philippines that appear to be gaining traction with the youth. Real traction, not simply shallow listening, but active participation by numerous youth looking for solutions to long term problems. Unlike their parents who simply accept things as they are. Sites like this are gaining bigger audiences than sites sponsored by Anwar Awlaki fortunately. The key in my view is to offer alternative sites for youth to build online communities. Actually forming communities that are proactive in solving problems appears to be working, and I rather they hug trees than build IEDs. Only time will tell if this influence continues to spread and more importantly hold over time.

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    The original goal of "hacktivism" was to generate peace, to reduce the cover & expose war crimes and the like. While it's not really widely known, up until the late 90's / early 00's, technology wasn't really used very much in the sort of classic 'peace work' that goes with resolving intractable conflicts with some form of reconciliation...

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonamatic View Post
    The original goal of "hacktivism" was to generate peace...
    Really? Which one?
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    This four-week online professional development certificate course will explore how new communication and mapping technologies are being used to respond to disasters, create early warning mechanisms, improve coordination efforts and much more.

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    Posted by Jeffersonrion

    This four-week online professional development certificate course will explore how new communication and mapping technologies are being used to respond to disasters, create early warning mechanisms, improve coordination efforts and much more.
    I am familiar with several of these efforts, it has immense potential (some are realizing it already), but you didn't provide a link to the online course?

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    Default U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

    The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.

    The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet in a suitcase.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/wo...t.html?_r=1&hp
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    This might be very useful in a disaster too. They aren't far removed from each other in terms of results.

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    Default Have a "shadow' at home

    Will the USA allow independent "shadow" networks in the USA, that attempt to operate outside state control (FCC etc)? Whistle blowers I expect would appreciate such a resource. Ironically given the American character and culture it might be the first place to have such a network in places.
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    Still thinking about asking for a mod on this.

    Mod adds: link not working in the UK, maybe because it is an Afghan website and then discovered a cached edition via Google does work.
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