links for 2009-02-17
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A student responds to my research on Burma before I present at the Digital Democracy class @ Tufts
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Ethan also details BlueHost's removal of hosting for Kubatana and other sites.
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This is a great way to see how masses of people express thoughts online and how that can be organized. Fascinating breakdown of user input on the new change.gov site. He follows up by "revisit[ing] two existing facilitation techniques that help guide participation by adding to the process the kind of structure that I believe could work very well for large-scale efforts."
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Enough said.
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I had the pleasure of spending time with the wonderful women at Kubatana during my recent trip to Zimbabwe. They do incredible work and are an inspiration to Digital Democracy. Here is a recent recount of US company BlueHost siding with a dictatorial regime and taking down sites because of affiliations with democracy. As this becomes more of an issue, will groups like Electronic Frontiers Foundation be able to take legal action against traitorous companies such BlueHost?
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To follow up on yesterdays link regarding Facebooks invasive new changes in their terms of service is a comparative article by Amanda French. She's not a lawyer, but this is an interesting breakdown of the legal language under each service.
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