Anna Chen – 23 October 2013, The Orwell Prize 2014 launch Had a fun time as a guest speaker for the Orwell Prize 2014 launch event held at the Frontline Club last month, talking about ‘Internet and the modern self: manners and abuse online.’ Paul Anderson took this video of my bit. Also on the […]
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With a mixture of sympathy, schadenfreude and amusement, it seems. Evan Osnos writes in The New Yorker: After several years in which American diplomats have inveighed against Internet censorship in China, the proposals have inspired a bit of snickering. ‘The Great Firewall turns out to be a visionary product; the American government is trying to
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Oh dear. I was hoping that the next liberating step in China would have been the end of the death penalty. Or the inclusion of some sort of Clause 4 in the constitution guaranteeing workers a share in the means of production. You know, all that old communist stuff. But in their wisdom, and in
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Well, that’s one way of dealing with it. In the absence of proven technique, method, rhyme or reason, rehab staff in Nanning, China, beat to death a fifteen year old who wouldn’t get off his computer. Allegedly. As internet horror stories go, that’s an effective one. I’d say the milk of human kindness has curdled
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“Hey, someone’s got something wrong on the net! I have to put them right.” One for my lefty buddies, especially some of the weirdos scumming up the otherwise useful Socialist Unity website. I particularly like the prolier-than-thou bullies yelling at working class people how to be properly working class who turn out to be public
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