The Empire Strikes Back?

Saturday, March 24, 2012 – by Anthony Wile, Daily Bell

Anthony Wile The Empire is most definitely striking back. Between the huge and secretive data center being built in Utah to intercept and analyze the world's communications, Barack Obama's newly signed executive order that allows him "emergency" powers and the near-passage of SOPA, the powers that be are making it clear they intend to push back against what we call the Internet Reformation.
What else? Here comes "Connect to Americas," presented by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The summit, hosted in Panama, will gather together countries in the Caribbean to discuss technology.
It sounds like some sort of international company but actually it's a huge but low-key UN bureaucracy – and it's the latest danger to Internet freedom and maybe the gravest.

Tunisia: Fighting for Internet Freedom a society still at risk.

Maybe Tunisians do not consider “Net Freedom” as a priority, but still we are 3 million Internet users! What are we waiting for? While all over the world freedom of speech advocates are campaigning against different censorship projects like Hadopi in France, and SOPA in the US, we Tunisians “forgot” that we are still at risk. Remember what you have experienced during the rule of Ben Ali, the role the Internet has played in toppling his regime, and the fabulous feeling of rediscovered freedom, which alas can disappear in February. - After Abrougui, Tunisia