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Fighting censorship…with toothpaste? | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. Fighting censorship…with toothpaste? August 5, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. In my usual online meanderings I recently came across something that made me give a smug little snort of contention. I found a guide to staying safe online by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). It’s described as a practical guide to using the internet safely under a repressive regime. A report on the situation. Azerbaijan has contributed to the censorship phenomenon. By ar...

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Toothpasting censorship (Part 2) | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. Toothpasting censorship (Part 2). August 16, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. So let’s get straight to it. Why toothpaste? No it’s not because you have to squeeze some into the eyes of every person that tries to censor your contributions online or because it works some miracle for protecting your system against censorship, like hairspray on a leather couch to get marks out (really does work, I swear). The funniest part about the ad on censorship? By turning ...

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Overactivism: the proof | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. November 4, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. The first post on this blog was one about the meaninglessness that activism messages attain when they all appear together. People don’t know what to focus on and what to do once they do focus on something. To help prove this point, an experiment was carried out with a specific Facebook group. The note by the current administrator, Zubair Adam Mahomed. Explains the situation best:. And so from being a group about s...

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8230;and saving whales online. The Digital Age provides several new platforms for activists to achieve their goals. The internet is just one platform and new technologies for communication and information technologies make up the rest. This blog will take you through this new phenomenon by fleshing out the causes and effects, highs and lows, whys and why-nots of digital activism. No comments yet &#8212 be the first. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). Any word...

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Hacktivism: how does it make you feel? | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. Hacktivism: how does it make you feel? August 24, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. Here’s a chance for some mixed feelings: when we generally think of hacking we think ‘bad’. Think of activism and we usually think ‘good’. Combine the two and now tell mehow does that make you feel? But there have also been several recent incidents of ‘hacktivism’, like the cyber attacks on South Korean government websites. Which are believed to have a political motivation.

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Culture Jamming | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. May 5, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. When we’re passionate about something, we like to say that we eat, sleep and breathe it. Whether or not we consciously love brand names we usually do the same for them as well. We become blind slaves to big corporations and brands that control our lives from their steely grey watchtowers with pet vultures that circle overhead and report back on our behaviour. There are several different forms. Subvertising as one of th...

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Overactivism | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. April 28, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. You have 29 unread emails. 6 of these are important. Of the remaining 23, 15 are activist emails drawing my attention to a bomb-blast here or a rape or four there. What do I do? I delete them along with the Facebook updates that I simply mark and destroy without even opening. No, come now, don’t judge. The digital age provides the best platform for passing messages that can reach large numbers in small spaces of tim...

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Tweet and save the world? | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. Tweet and save the world? July 29, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. Twitter will change the world. Twitter will stop global warming. Twitter will better educate children. Twitter will swoop in and stop women from being abused. And all this will be done in no more than 140 characters. UNICEF’s Eminent Advocate for Children, Queen Rania of Jordan, is someone who believes in twitteras an activism tool. She says in an interview. Queen Rania says Twitter is about...

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…but it could | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. 8230;but it could. May 28, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. I’m not a one-eyed, small-minded ranter, though it may seem like I am at times. I do acknowledge the bright side of human nature that is not always self-feeding and egocentric and I do see the not-dark side of petitioning. As pointed out by Handmadebyava in a comment on Sign for a cause, any cause, it doesn’t make a difference. Gives the example of how Nelson Mandela’s release from prison can, in pa...

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We don’t all fight for trees and peace | Cybertreehugs

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8230;and saving whales online. We don’t all fight for trees and peace. May 13, 2009. Posted by Farzana Rasool in Uncategorized. It’s been a while since hooded members of the Ku Klux Clan. Were seen walking around freely or standing around a campfire singing Kumbaya. The digital platform may actually be making the existence of these groups easier than it would have been without it. The main reason for this is the considerable softening or altogether disappearance of fear. Suggested fear is a dominating fa...