- Does The Number have a lesson for human rights activists? Our good friend Ethan has done it again, drawing the connection between a recent viral meme, anti-censorship, and human rights in an article on World Changing. A 16 digit number used as a key to decrypt HD-DVDs became the center of an online revolt against internet censorship yesterday, when it was posted on several blogs, […]
- Opinions on the Cellphone Videos from the Virginia Tech Massacre Steve Safran of Lost Remote writes: I like it whenever I come upon contrarian points of view. And newassignment.net has a doozy. Steve Fox writes about Virginia Tech student Jamal Albarghouti’s cellphone video of the shooting at Virginia Tech. Here are some of his thoughts: As everyone steps up to applaud the “citizen journalism” that […]
- YouTube Scammed by 15 Year Old From Slashdot: “A fifteen year old from Perth, Australia, posed as an employee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, demanding that YouTube remove hundreds of video clips of ‘The Chasers War on Everything.’ The amusing part is that The Chaser is a comedy company well known to perpetrate exactly this sort of prank.” Interesting to see […]
- Alive in Mexico Correspondent Injured by Police We received and email from our friend, Charles of blip.tv alerting us to a situation in Mexico. A person working with Alive in Mexico (the same folks who started Alive in Baghdad) was injured while covering demonstrations. We’ve tried to put them in touch with some of our contacts, but they could use some help […]
- Turkey Blocks YouTube From Slashdot. FM Reader writes “After a controversial mock-up video reportedly submitted by a Greek member about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, Turkish courts ordered the national ISPs to ban the online video service, YouTube. YouTube hostnames are currently redirected at the DNS level to a page that announces the court order.” […]
- More on Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything about the Josh Wolf situation. He now has the distinction of being longest incarcerated journalist in US history for contempt of court, 170 days. An article from Slashdot links to an interview with Wolf on Democracy now. Video blogger and independent journalist Josh Wolf has been in a […]
- Join the WITNESS Hub Team 2007 promises to be a big year for the Hub! We are already looking to grow the Hub staff and are currently seeking a Hub Manager to oversee all aspects of the Hub during development and roll out, scheduled to take place Summer 2007. For more information and how to apply please see the job […]
- Panopticon Catches a Killer Happy New Year. It’s been awhile since the last entry, but better late than never I guess. A lot has happened in the last year with user generated content culminating with Time Magazine’s Person of the Year being “You.” In particular, video from camera phones has gotten a lot of press attention with the notable […]
- Josh Wolf out on Bail As a follow up to an earlier post, video blogger, Josh Wolf has been released after being imprisoned for 30 days for refusing to give up footage from a demonstration in San Francisco protesting the G8 summit.
- China Making Sure That User Generated Content Is Officially Registered Content First Another good post from unmediated originally from techdirt: China has a long history of being a bureaucratic society — and it seems they’re really learned how to apply that bureaucracy to the internet. They have tens of thousands of people monitoring the internet, for example. However, they’re really going to ridiculous extremes in trying to […]
- Interview with Jailed Video Blogger Here’s a follow up to my last post about imprisoned video blogger, Josh Wolf. CNET’s interview with Josh Wolf, a video blogger who is Federal prison for refusing to hand over footage he shot during a G8 protest held San Francisco in July 2005. An SFPD police car was damaged during the protest and because […]
- Video Blogger Goes to Jail Today our friends at unmediated posted a story about Josh Wolf, a video blogger who shot some footage of the G8 protests in San Francisco last year which he posted to his blog. Now that footage is being subpoenaed by the Federal Government, and since Wolf has refused to turn over the tapes he was […]
