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		<title>Would the actions of the Digital Economy Bill be tolerated “offline”?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lee Griffith has a great post at Liberal Conspiracy on the Digital Economy Bill. While well worth the read for the what-if scenareo alone, it&#8217;s also got some solid tips on what to include when you write your MP about this disasterous policy shift toward totalitarianism.
Imagine a world in which you&#8217;re home repairs could land [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/18/bill-would-fail-offline/</link>
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		<title>UK Libel reform: Join the Mass Lobby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join the Libel Reform Campaign and come to the House of Commons for a mass lobby meeting at 2pm Tuesday 23rd March. We will be joined by high profile supporters of the campaign at what will be our last chance to get commitment for libel law reform from politicians and policy makers before the election [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/17/mass-lobby/</link>
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		<title>Stop the UK government from destroying the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get them on the record before they trash your digital  media rights
Reposting from Cory Doctorow&#8217;s post here,  and 38 Degrees post here.  Ah, the echo chamber&#8230;

The House of Lords failed to take reasonable action on the threat posed by the Digital  Economy Bill and let it slide back into the House [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/17/protest-digital-economy-bill/</link>
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		<title>The Risk of Facebook Activism in the New Arab Public Sphere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at The Arabist, Issandr El Amrani ruminates on Facebook&#8217;s role in Middle Eastern politics, a subject I&#8217;ve had my eye on for quite some time.  Drawing on the recent example of Egyptian reformer El Baradei and his enormous Facebook following, El Amrani marvels at the level of Facebook use for activism in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/17/the-risk-of-facebook-activism-in-the-new-arab-public-sphere/</link>
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		<title>Global Voices Bloggers Speak Out Against Censorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, an initiative promoted by global NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in support of a single Internet that is unrestricted and accessible to all. The day will hopefully inspire Internet users to increase their own awareness of online censorship, which is something that many Global Voices authors know all too well.]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/12/global-voices-bloggers-speak-out-against-censorship/</link>
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		<title>Some LibDems use Facebook to revolt against Digital Economy Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Liberal Democrat faction is using Facebook to revolt against the Digital Economy Bill which their party seemed to threaten to make even worse with additions that would make file-sharing tools off limits in the UK. The page spells out the following:
We condemn
a) web-blocking and disconnecting internet connections
b) the threat to the freedom, dignity and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/10/some-libdems-use-facebook-to-revolt-against-digital-economy-bill/</link>
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		<title>The limits of circumvention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I strongly believe that we need strong, anonymized and useable censorship circumvention tools. But I also believe that we need lots more than censorship circumvention tools, and I fear that both funders and technologists may overfocus on this one particular aspect of internet freedom at the expense of other avenues. I wonder whether we’re looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/09/the-limits-of-circumvention/</link>
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		<title>Digital Economy Bill edges toward human rights violation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democrats seemed determined in the UK to outdo Peter Mandelson in draconian efforts to disable the web via the Digitial Economy Bill, which seems aimed at doing anything but advancing a truely digital economy.
As Cory Doctorow points out at BoingBoing today, the revised bill which rejected by the House of Lords yesterday could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/04/digital-economy-bill-must-die/</link>
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		<title>Create and host a web proxy server for free using the Google App Engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Inspiration has this elegant method of quickly creating a proxy server without using your home computer and hosting it for free, using the Google App Engine. In just 9 steps you can creat a proxy server for your blocked friends in China, Iran, your office or anywhere else where the Web is seen as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/03/04/create-and-host-a-web-proxy-server-for-free-using-the-google-app-engine/</link>
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		<title>The 2010 Olympics and Repression of Independent Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nigel Parry for Rustbelt Radio, February 15th, 2010 
A variety of measures were taken by both Canadian and U.S. authorities against independent jounrnalists attempting to cover the protests around the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
Listen to the report:
http://nigelparry.com/downloads/20100215-rustbelt-radio-olympics-nigel-parry.mp3

The 21st Winter Olympics are being held from February 12th‚Äì28th, 2010, in Vancouver and Whistler, in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/02/15/temp/</link>
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