Dark Glasses

Dark Glasses is a online campaign to support Chen Guangcheng and calling for his freedom. Chen GuangCheng is a blind civil rights activist. He exposed the violent treatment of villagers during local government's implementation of China's One Child Policy in Linyi, Shandong Province. This angered the authorities. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a fabricated crime of "damaging public property and disrupt traffic". Dark Glasses. Portrait campaign calls Chinese citizens and people around the world to express their concern and support for Chen Guangcheng. Every participant puts on a pair of dark glasses (sunglasses/blindfold), takes a portrait, writes a few words about his/her thoughts, and sends the picture to the campaign. The pictures form a silent picture wall at ichenguangcheng.blogspot.com/ to show our solidarity of standing together with Chen.credit: ichenguangcheng.blogspot.com
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Choke Point Project / P2P Foundation

The Choke Point Project2 by the P2P Foundation is meant for people curious about transparency and control of the networking technologies, their use and abuse by nation states and corporations leading towards new toolsets being produced to distribute connectivity beyond traditional powers. Telephony and the Internet have had a huge impact on society, both positive and negative. Following the uprisings in the Middle East in 2011, where the Internet was “turned off”, we aim to provide a close-to real-time map of leverage points expressed through the power medium of data visualization. credit: P2P Foundation

Newstweek / Julian Oliver, Danja Vasiliev

"Newstweek" by Julian Oliver (NZ) and Danja Vasiliev (RU) is a device for manipulating the news read by other people on wireless hotspots. Built into a small and innocuous wall plug, the "Newstweek" device appears as part of the local infrastructure. This allows agents to remotely edit news read on laptops, phones and tablets without the awareness of their users. credit: Julian Oliver, Danja Vasiliev

12.04.2012 Nach Sopa und Pipa haben nicht nur Netzaktivisten den nächsten Feind der Internetfreiheit ausgemacht: Cispa, einen Gesetzesentwurf, dem es vordergründig um einen besseren Schutz vor Cybergefahren geht. Zählten einst grosse Unternehmen wie Facebook zu den Gegnern solcher Vorstösse, halten sie sich nun zurück – wieder aus geschäftlichen Gründen.