Patrick Boehler

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2024-09-20 01:14:49

Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish Students Who Circumvent the Great Firewall https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/09/translation-chinese-universities-install-software-to-identify-and-punish-students-who-circumvent-the-great-firewall/

2024-09-19 19:40:11

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This is super interesting! How does it work, select sources?

2024-09-18 18:13:06

I'll be facilitating a conversation "circle" at the Global Gathering in Estoril, Portugal next Friday, Sep 27. This three-day event is all about collaboration building and knowledge sharing among digital rights activists.
The conversation theme is "supporting disrupted media" and brings together journalists, technologists, and digital rights activists to brainstorm how to keep independent media relevant and resilient.
From the gradual fragmentation of the internet to shutdowns to donor fatigue, the current challenges require massive rethinking in how journalism is practiced. I'll share some ideas, and I'm really curious to learn about others.
If you're attending, I'd love to see you there. If you're hosting a related conversation there, count me in.

2024-09-17 23:03:48

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Totally agree. It’s never perfect, can just push for greater systems transparency

2024-09-17 23:02:42

“But we argue that it's time to stop conflating the flailing response of news and information providers to those fundamental market shifts with a loss of faith in the key role of independent journalism to functioning democracy. Indeed, we should stop scolding audiences as uninterested in democracy just because they may no longer choose to pay for news products that they don’t find relevant to their lives or easy to access.
Those market shifts, along with powerful technology, have provided people more power to choose what information they get and how they get it. The choices remain overwhelming, and the news industry’s struggle to invest in user experience and monetize its content has diminished its standing. But that didn’t alter this essential truth: High quality journalism that informs and helps people make choices for better lives is as crucially important today as ever — and is finding business success. So, that side of the story deserves a greater share of the airtime.”
https://www.poynter.org/onpoynt-report/

2024-09-17 11:04:25

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That’s exactly the point. There are tons of free VPNs that operate freely in China but just do data harvesting, the ones supported by this program have no logs policies and are externally audited.

2024-09-14 00:32:08

How it started / how it’s going
https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/d45dbf34d5997556f86aea5e059bef4f2989c6fe82b0b3f0216764795228263f.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/4b10a5aadbe51b0939dbf73dabdf1edd92dc2fb4ce17c20ad8e06f43161e347c.webp

2024-09-14 00:31:09

Any recommendations on good write ups of the #FediForum? Sad to have missed it. Thank you

2024-09-13 12:33:58

For less than a dollar a year, we can provide free and secure internet access via VPN to someone living under digital oppression.
Last week, the U.S. National Security Council and the State Department convened a meeting with civil society and representatives from tech giants like Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, and Microsoft to build momentum for greater coordination and investment in countering internet censorship and fragmentation globally.
Laura Cunningham, President of the Open Technology Fund, shared the cost estimate at the gathering. It's approx. 7 cents per user per month. Through OTF, the U.S. currently supports more than 45 million monthly users in Iran, China, Russia, Myanmar and elsewhere, enabling their access to the open internet.
VPNs allow people to communicate securely, inform and express themselves freely, and contribute to global progress.
At the meeting, I shared how VPNs are an essential tool for journalists, both for reporting and for distribution and my worries about about a possible full blocking of YouTube in Russia: https://www.pboehler.net/vpn-russia-white-house/
Funding is just the beginning. There needs to be training people to use VPNs effectively, helping them identify trustworthy services, and building momentum to share and distribute access.
A Reuters report on the initiative and the surge in usage of publicly-funded VPNs: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-calls-big-tech-help-evade-online-censors-russia-iran-2024-09-05/

2024-09-11 02:31:24

Pakistan is building a China-style firewall. Internet speeds have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor internet traffic, according to service providers
https://restofworld.org/2024/pakistan-internet-firewall/

2024-09-11 02:07:53

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Pugs are the best

2024-09-06 01:54:57

How China’s Internet Police Went from Targeting Bloggers to their Followers
In recent months, followers of influential bloggers have been
interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/02/how-chinas-internet-police-went-from-targeting-bloggers-to-their-followers

2024-09-06 01:43:06

The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces. It adapts Marx’s 1880 Workers’ Inquiry to the phenomenon of data workers who are essential for contemporary AI applications yet precariously employed—if at all—and politically dispersed.
https://data-workers.org/

2024-09-04 22:44:02

re:filtered is my monthly newsletter, this month with some new audience research learnings, hacking news, and upcoming conferences: https://www.pboehler.net/8-information-myths/

2024-09-04 21:55:34

September 24 - Books Unbanned: Ensuring Access to Books for Everyone, Everywhere
featuring Cory Doctorow, Leah Johnson, and Kelly Brotzman (Boston, MA and on Zoom)
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50

2024-09-04 21:54:18

Heading to DC for a day, beautiful train journey
https://m.primal.net/KeYd.jpg

2024-09-04 21:53:19

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Totally agree on current state, would love to see logic of Tor relays and bridges to be explored to circumvent censorship

2024-09-03 19:23:27

New project launch: http://GoogleCensorship.org
This platform by GreatFire will monitor censorship practices in Google Play Stores worldwide

2024-09-03 10:07:36

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This! Has anyone tried since?

2024-09-01 12:46:14

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https://matrix.org is great