http://antonyloewenstein.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:53:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who said there isn't money to made in the West from Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe?Share This http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/04/profit-from-despotism/ My following article appeared in yesterday's edition of Crikey: 64 people have been arrested for blogging their views since 2003, according to a recent University of Washington report. Three times as many people were arrested for blogging about political issues in 2007 than the year before. More than half of all the arrests ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/04/the-dangers-of-blogging-for-democracy/ My latest New Matilda column is about the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Budapest last week: Are Chinese netizens any more thin-skinned than Westerners when attacked online for their opinions? Antony Loewenstein reports from the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit During the Harvard University sponsored Global Voices Citizen Media Summit ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/03/battle-of-the-brainwashed/ The positive: Iranian Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology Mohammad Soleimani said on Tuesday that there are as many as 63 million fixed and mobile phone users in Iran. Addressing the Fourth International Seminar on Information and Telecommunications Security in Damascus, Soleimani said 27 percent of Iranian population are linked to ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/03/personality-disorder-in-iran/ The American mainstream media displays typical, unrestrained mania over daring to challenge John McCain's Vietnam record. God forbid somebody may question the Republican nominee: Share This http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/03/dont-mention-vietnam/ Evgeny Morozov, Open Democracy, June 30: The Budapest [Global Voices] gathering represents one of the major benefits of today's internet revolution: the radical democratisation of the global flow of ideas. The technology, the ideas and the processes that have made possible blogs, social networks, and collaborative projects like Wikipedia also give ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/03/redefining-the-democratic-model/ Robert Mugabe is undoubtedly destroying Zimbabwe, but why does the West have such selective outrage when it comes to Africa? (Hint: oil.)Share This http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/03/dont-worry-about-those-blacks-really/ This is how Israel treats Palestinian journalists who struggle to report on the indignity of the Zionist occupation of their land.Share This http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/02/do-you-have-love-in-your-culture/ I connected with many activists and bloggers from around the world at last week's Global Voices Citizen Summit 2008 in Budapest. During the event, I was interviewed by the BBC Radio program, IPM, a weekly show about the web and technology. This story featured interviews with dissidents from various nations, telling ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/02/the-bbc-on-web-repression/ My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: Westerners must look at China in all its diversity, including voices of reason, writes Antony Loewenstein During last week’s Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Budapest, Hungary, where I presented a paper on the role of ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/02/china-is-not-a-one-sided-story/