http://antonyloewenstein.com Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:44:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Will Facebook succumb to the Chinese internet censor?Share This http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/05/curtailing-social-networking/ Something to remind us of the emotional power of the web to bring people together from across the globe (read this first): Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.Share This http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/05/putting-a-smile-to-your-face/ A portrait of the film-maker as a young man in Castro's Cuba.Share This http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/05/navigating-the-red-lines/ Shahid Malik, British minister in the Department for International Development: I think most people would agree that if you ask Muslims today what do they feel like, they feel like the Jews of Europe. I don't mean to equate that with the Holocaust but in the way that it was legitimate ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/04/target-islam/ My friend Mike Otterman, author of American Torture, writes for the Guardian Comment is Free in response to Christopher Hitchens' piece in Vanity Fair claiming water-boarding is torture...yet suggesting America is somehow not as bad as those repressive regimes...who also use torture: Now, neoconservative pundit Christopher Hitchens has waded into the ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/07/04/whos-looking-bad-now/ 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/