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Entries from April 2007

Censorship and the Internet

April 29th, 2007 No Comments

My oped was published in today’s News and Observer (Raleigh).
If you are interested in alternate search engines try Kartoo or IceRocket. Services like WordPress and TypePad host blogs. Thanks to the students in my Human Rights Activism class for these leads!

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Yahoo and torture

April 19th, 2007 No Comments

For the first time, a human rights group has used US law to sue an Internet company for contributing to torture. On April 18, the World Organization for Human Rights alleged that Internet user Wang Xiazoning was arrested in September 2002 on charges including “incitement to subvert state power.”Chinese authorites partly based the charge on [...]

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Apologies for slavery

April 13th, 2007 No Comments

This week, North Carolina’s House voted unanimously to apologize for slavery and the legal discrimination against blacks imposed during the Jim Crow years. Procedurally, the House adopted a resolution already passed by the state senate, meaning that this essentially means that the apology reflects the will of both chambers.
With this action, the state is [...]

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