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	<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org</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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		<title>U.S. independent journalist refused entry to Canada; questioned by U.S. Homeland Security</title>
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Osburn filming at the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh, 2009. Photo: Lauren McChesney.
U.S. journalist John Weston Osburn was detained by homeland security on his way back in to the States after being twice denied by Canadian Border Officials on his way into Canada to cover protests at the 2010 Olympics. While in the area between border [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/02/11/u-s-independent/</link>
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		<title>Rochester Indymedia journalist Dawn Zuppelli Detained at Canadian Border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rochester Indymedia journalist, Dawn Zuppelli, was interrogated and detained for over an hour by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) on her way to cover protests at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC.

Upon arriving at customs at the Vancouver International Airport, she and her colleague Ted Forsyth, also with Rochester Indymedia, were asked the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/02/10/rochester-indymedia-journalist-dawn-zuppelli-detained-at-canadian-border/</link>
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		<title>Israel raids ISM media office for the second time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nine Israeli soldiers kicked in the door of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) media office in the Palestinian West Bank town of Ramallah and demanded the passports of the internationals present. The soldiers confiscated a desktop computer used by ISM volunteers.

Two internationals, Ryan Olander of the U.S. and Nick Bryer of the U..K., were awoken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/02/10/israel-raids-ism-media-office-for-the-second-time/</link>
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		<title>Independent media reporter rejected at U.S./Canada border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Macias Jr., an independent media reporter from Chicago travelling to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC, has been rejected by Canadian border agents and held without outside contact for at least 7 hours (as of 9pm) today. Macias arrived in Vancouver from Chicago (via Minneapolis) on a 11:30am Delta Airlines flight on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/02/06/independent-media-reporter-rejected-at-u-s-canada-border/</link>
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		<title>Information is Beautiful: Censorship not so much. Infographic on blocked sites in China</title>
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Graphic on who is being blocked by the Great Firewall of China by David McCandless at Information is Beautiful. Based on data found here.
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		<link>http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/02/03/blocked-sites-in-china-infographic/</link>
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