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Patrick Boehler
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Media and tech
Exiled media: Using/managing mirror services to distribute blocked sites? Kaleidoscope is researching creation, monitoring & usage pain points. Leave email in survey for results. Anonymous participation. Not using mirrors but interested? Let me know.
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- Russian: 
Google Docs
Mirror Service Survey
We at Kaleidoscope are conducting research to better understand the challenges and opportunities in mirror service management. As a publisher manag...
Google Docs
Исследование сервисов по зеркалам
Мы в Калейдоскопе проводим исследование, чтобы лучше понять вызовы и возможност...
Journalism awards should go to journalists who actually excelled in revealing information that was of service to real people. If awards keep going to people who have perfected the performative donor narratives and not actually been of service, not only the award committees get discredited but the entire profession. There is a long term cost to hypocrisy.
Journalists: Hush Line is a refreshingly straightforward and simple setup for anonymous tips and messages, and it runs on @torproject.
If you want to give it a try, message me here: 
🤫 Hush Line
An open-source whistleblowing platform for organizations and individuals.
感謝《 #田間 》電子報編輯簡恒宇的訪問。我們上週在台北談到新聞界可以如何重新思考業界獎項： 
新聞獎制度尤其是評判標準和評選過程上需要改革，以確保它們對新聞業和社會所提供的價值。
《田間》為理解全球華文媒體產業變遷與挑戰的重要資源，若您對這個議題有興趣的話請訂閲。
20241105《田間》美國大選特輯
專門報導全球華文媒體相關議題的刊物
Heading to Taipei and Chiang Mai soon, interested in meeting folks working on internet freedom and media research/strategy. We are working on a few projects that may be of interest. Grateful for introductions and happy to just reconnect over coffee .
The Tor project has a new job opening for a User Support Specialist in Farsi
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish Students Who Circumvent the Great Firewall 
China Digital Times (CDT)
Translation: Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish Students Who Circumvent the Great Firewall
A recent WeChat post reveals that some Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the...
I'll be facilitating a conversation "circle" at the Global Gathering in Estoril, Portugal next Friday, Sep 27. This three-day event is all about collaboration building and knowledge sharing among digital rights activists.
The conversation theme is "supporting disrupted media" and brings together journalists, technologists, and digital rights activists to brainstorm how to keep independent media relevant and resilient.
From the gradual fragmentation of the internet to shutdowns to donor fatigue, the current challenges require massive rethinking in how journalism is practiced. I'll share some ideas, and I'm really curious to learn about others.
If you're attending, I'd love to see you there. If you're hosting a related conversation there, count me in.
“But we argue that it's time to stop conflating the flailing response of news and information providers to those fundamental market shifts with a loss of faith in the key role of independent journalism to functioning democracy. Indeed, we should stop scolding audiences as uninterested in democracy just because they may no longer choose to pay for news products that they don’t find relevant to their lives or easy to access.
Those market shifts, along with powerful technology, have provided people more power to choose what information they get and how they get it. The choices remain overwhelming, and the news industry’s struggle to invest in user experience and monetize its content has diminished its standing. But that didn’t alter this essential truth: High quality journalism that informs and helps people make choices for better lives is as crucially important today as ever — and is finding business success. So, that side of the story deserves a greater share of the airtime.”
Poynter
OnPoynt Report - Poynter
How it started / how it’s going
For less than a dollar a year, we can provide free and secure internet access via VPN to someone living under digital oppression.
Last week, the U.S. National Security Council and the State Department convened a meeting with civil society and representatives from tech giants like Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, and Microsoft to build momentum for greater coordination and investment in countering internet censorship and fragmentation globally.
Laura Cunningham, President of the Open Technology Fund, shared the cost estimate at the gathering. It's approx. 7 cents per user per month. Through OTF, the U.S. currently supports more than 45 million monthly users in Iran, China, Russia, Myanmar and elsewhere, enabling their access to the open internet.
VPNs allow people to communicate securely, inform and express themselves freely, and contribute to global progress.
At the meeting, I shared how VPNs are an essential tool for journalists, both for reporting and for distribution and my worries about about a possible full blocking of YouTube in Russia: 
Funding is just the beginning. There needs to be training people to use VPNs effectively, helping them identify trustworthy services, and building momentum to share and distribute access.
A Reuters report on the initiative and the surge in usage of publicly-funded VPNs: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-calls-big-tech-help-evade-online-censors-russia-iran-2024-09-05/
Patrick Boehler
VPNs: A lifeline of free information in closed societies
How VPNs protect information access in Russia and other censorship-prone areas.
How China’s Internet Police Went from Targeting Bloggers to their Followers
In recent months, followers of influential bloggers have been
interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance.
the Guardian
How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers
In recent months, followers of influential liberal bloggers have been interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance
The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces. It adapts Marx’s 1880 Workers’ Inquiry to the phenomenon of data workers who are essential for contemporary AI applications yet precariously employed—if at all—and politically dispersed.
Data Workers' Inquiry
Data Workers' Inquiry - Data Workers' Inquiry
Data Workers' Inquiry
re:filtered is my monthly newsletter, this month with some new audience research learnings, hacking news, and upcoming conferences:
Patrick Boehler
Re:filtered #8: How we think about information may be too narrow
Perhaps we're misunderstanding how people chose information.
September 24 - Books Unbanned: Ensuring Access to Books for Everyone, Everywhere
featuring Cory Doctorow, Leah Johnson, and Kelly Brotzman (Boston, MA and on Zoom)
BiblioEvents
The Right to Read: Ensuring Access to Books for Everyone, Everywhere featuring Cory Doctorow, Leah Johnson and Kelly Brotzman
Join us in-person or online over Zoom Webinar for a National Banned Books Week panel discussion program. The Boston Public Library is part of a nat...
Heading to DC for a day, beautiful train journey
New project launch:
This platform by GreatFire will monitor censorship practices in Google Play Stores worldwide
GoogleCensorship
Google Censorship
Monitor Google censorship in Play Stores worldwide. Explore evidence, track removals and availability, and understand the impact on digital freedoms.
Agreeing here: “Durov and Telegram might yet be exonerated from the charges they face—and we should indeed reserve judgment as the case unfolds. But nothing about his arrest to date suggests that it has anything to do with ‘free speech.’ The narrative that global authoritarian censors are persecuting a free speech hero is pure myth-making in this case.”
Platforms like Telegram Accused of Facilitating Child Sexual Abuse Can’t Invoke Free Speech Protections
Respectable voices shouldn’t fall for Elon Musk’s hysterical claims that the arrest of Pavel Durov, the messaging service’s billionaire CEO, ...