Julian Assange, born 3 July 1971) is an Australian journalist,publisher, and Internet activist. He is the spokesperson and editor in chief for WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website. Before working with the website, he was a computer programmer and hacker. He has lived in several countries, and has made occasional public appearances to speak about freedom of the press, censorship, and investigative journalism.
Aaron Swartz is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has over a million members. He is also a Contributing Editor to The Baffler and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.
ReadDaoud Kuttab is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University ('07-'08). While at Princeton he taught a seminar on new media in the Arab world. Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and media activists. Born in Jerusalem in 1955, Kuttab studied in the United States and has been working in journalism ever since 1980.
Mathematician and open-source developer Drazen Pantic was deeply involved with Serbian Radio B92 in Pozarevac, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's home town.
Read"Luther Blissett" is a multi-use name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over Europe since summer 1994.
ReadFriday 23 May 2014, 05:00 GMT
The National Security Agency has
been recording and storing nearly all the domestic (and international)
phone calls from two or more target countries as of 2013. Both the
Washington Post and The Intercept (based in the US and published by eBay
chairman Pierre Omidyar) have censored the name of one of the victim
states, which the latter publication refers to as country "X".
Open letter by Paolo Cirio.
Press Release Oct 6, 2020.
Addressed to Roselyne Bachelot, French Minister of Culture.
In response to the censored art installation at the exhibition Panorama 22, programmed at Le Fresnoy - Studio national, under the threat and pressure of the French Minister of Interior Gerald Darmanin.
"Since its inception, the internet has provided new ways for people all over the world to exercise the rights of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. These rights are not simply the benefits of a free society--they are the very means of preserving that society's freedom."
Dear Citizens of the World
Anonymous can not, and will not stand idly while people are being
denied their basic rights and human liberties. Yet, there are still a
lot of governments worldwide who fail to even aspire to the standard of
freedom that was set by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
These governments believe they have the right and privilege to impose
upon their own people an 'official' version of 'reality' which isn't in
any way tampered by the truths of everyday life under which its
citizens are living. Anonymous believes this is an outright crime which
can not go unpunished.
Duration: 19 Apr 2022 - 30 Dec 2022
The Tactical Media Room (TMR) is an initiative of Waag Futurelab and Institute for Network Cultures (HvA), founded in late February 2022 after the Russian invasion in Ukraine. In collaboration with hackers, artists, designers and researchers in The Netherlands, TMR aims to support independent tactical media, journalists, newsrooms and civic initiatives from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
VakuumTV was founded in February 1994 on the initiative of László
Kistamás. Its members presented weekly broadcasts on Monday nights at
the most popular cultural club in Budapest, Tilos az Á. Needless to
say, the designation 'VakuumTV' was not meant to refer to any kind of
conventional television channel which could be received on TV sets in
commercial circulation. Rather, its founders envisioned a live show in
which a large frame separating the stage from the audience imitates the
experience of watching TV for the audience. Thus VakuumTV can be
received only where this frame is set up.
