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1 Jan 2015 5 minute read

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More noise than signal

Micah L Sifry assesses the political limits of social media.

1 Jan 2015 4 minute read

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Dreams of freedom, dreams of domination

How the internet got colonized, by Jillian C York.

1 Jan 2015 2 minute read

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Tread softly in cyberspace

Dunja Mijatović makes the case for light-touch regulation.

1 Jan 2015 3 minute read

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Everywhere in chains

Investigative journalist Nick Davies on the myth of press freedom.

1 Jan 2015 4 minute read

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Privacy vs transparency

Is it possible to have both in a digital age? Yes, argues Sunil Abraham.

1 Jan 2015 2 minute read

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Mind your own business

Privacy International’s Eric King on resisting surveillance.

1 Jan 2015 4 minute read

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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

John Perry Barlow’s visionary 1996 statement.

1 Jan 2015 1 minute read

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Democracy in the digital era - the facts

The facts and figures that matter in our infographic.

21 Nov 2014 4 minute read

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Occupy Democracy returns to Parliament Square

Jamie Kelsey Fry looks to the returning Occupy movement as the beginning of the end for corporatocracy.

30 Oct 2014 3 minute read

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Tunisians vote for secular government

Timothy Baster and Isabelle Merminod report from Tunis, as the results of the Tunisian...

24 Oct 2014 4 minute read

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Democracy has come to life in Parliament Square

The farcical police brutality towards Occupy Democracy is a sign the authorities are running scared, argues Hannah...

27 Aug 2014 3 minute read

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Angry Pakistanis take to the streets amid vote-rigging claims

But Syed Hamad Ali wonders whether they are ready to call their leaders to account.

6 Aug 2014 2 minute read

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Palestinians denied the right to be presumed innocent

Israel is ignoring a basic tenet of a democratic state, argues Raff Piccolo.

11 Jul 2014 3 minute read

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TTIP is an affront to democracy

Miriam Ross on why Brits should join the protests against a dangerous EU-US trade deal on Saturday.

1 Jun 2014 7 minute read

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Are riots good for democracy?

Professor and author Stephen D’Arcy and historian and journalist Vijay Prashad go head to...

23 May 2014 3 minute read

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No room left for democracy in Thailand’s political chaos

Mary Warren on the military coup and the struggle for control of the beleaguered Asian nation.

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