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Intellectual Freedom Fighters, Part 5: Rural Internet Access Groups

The final installment in the Intellectual Freedom Fighters Series looks at different projects to bring internet access to rural communities.

September 19, 2019September 16, 2019 Kelly Bilz Access, Computers, Technology
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Book Review: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

The internet has fueled our modern Information Age – a time when access to information is automatic and universal. But this touchstone for democratized knowledge has a dark past, and an even scarier present.

March 25, 2019March 24, 2019 Ross Sempek Book Review, Privacy
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The Miraculous Existence of Libraries

“If libraries didn’t exist today, you couldn’t bring them into existence. You couldn’t go to Congress and say, ‘Listen, publishers of America, we have a bill to publicly fund a place where people just loan out your product and then [patrons] get it and they bring it back… Are you cool with that?’

June 19, 2018June 19, 2018 Jessica Garner General Interest
Not Censorship But Selection by Lester Asheim

Lester Asheim in Cyberspace: A Tribute to Sound Reasoning

This article first appeared in American Libraries in October 2002 and connects Lester Asheim’s timeless arguments and applies them to the cyber age. Asheim’s article is still cited by library science community decades later when dealing with the problems of cyber materials.

April 29, 2017April 26, 2017 Kristin Pekoll Censorship, Internet Filters, Self-Censorship
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On the Interest and Unimportance of HRC32 #10

By: Ken Sawdon I was surprised to see many people over the internet excited about the UN Human Right’s Council’s resolution to, among other things, denounce intentional internet blackouts a […]

July 21, 2016October 26, 2016 Kenneth Sawdon Censorship, Information Access, International issues, Technology
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