Tag archive: freedom

The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) is offering a free toolkit to reporters visiting China for the Olympics that will allow them to evade the country’s censorship and access any site they want. The kit consists of five tools that can hide the computer IP address, encrypt traffic and enable FTP downloads, according to Vnunet. The free software, which can be downloaded from the GIFC site, can be put on a hard drive or… Read More

Reporters Without Frontiers have released their Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007, and it highlights not only the problems with press freedom for traditional journalists around the globe, but also the threat to bloggers.   A number of countries have seen their rankings fall because of the way they’ve restricted or violated the freedom of bloggers. Several countries, like Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Egypt, have arrested bloggers… Read More

Here's another reason to think RSS is truly hitting the big time: a group of high tech investors has come together to form RSS Investors, LP, a financial partnership with $100 million to support RSS-related Internet technology companies. The new RSS venture fund, whose focus includes OPML and the newly proposed Microsoft extensions to RSS, will target sectors related to news aggregation, blogs and new classes of search engines.… Read More