links for 2009-07-22

Posted by Mark Belinsky on July 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

• Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration' | The Guardian
  What do people do with technology after a crackdown?
  (tags: iran politics mobile internet protest surveillance freedom boycott)
• Surveillance Self-Defense International | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  6 Ideas for Technology to Protect Free Speech in Authoritarian Regimes & 4 Ways You Can Help
  (tags: privacy Security surveillance internet anonymity censorship activism politics tools)
• How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future. | Slate Magazine
  Can we let companies like Apple and Amazon troll their hardware after users purchase it to search for "illegal" materials? Sounds almost like China's Green Dam project to me. And just as dangerous. Beware Voltaire!
  (tags: business copyright internet controversy law drm)
• Crowdsourcing lustration and vigilante justice | Net Effect
  Can one crowdsource justice by publicizing known apparatchiks? Is it vigilantism, citizen journalism or the new mob?
  (tags: postsoviet russia law crowdsourcing)
• China bans electric shock treatment used to 'cure' young internet addicts | The Guardian
  Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) creating "brain-waking" (xingnao)? Not anymore apparently. But what an example of internet dedication in China.
  (tags: china psychology internet culture)
• 100 Essential Skills for Geeks | Wired
  This is a test. Only a test…. But how do you hold up?
  (tags: technology culture humor diy geek)

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