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Tag Archives: azerbaijan
Threats to Online Privacy
I have a new article for Al Jazeera on threats to email privacy. (OK, it is not really that new, but I’ve been too busy arguing with the daughter of Uzbekistan’s dictator to update my website – read about it … Continue reading
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Tagged azerbaijan, human rights, privacy, surveillance, uzbekistan
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More on the Internet Governance Forum
I wrote another article about the Internet Governance Forum in Baku, this time for Radio Free Europe. I argue that it’s beneficial to hold policy forums like IGF in authoritarian states: Meetings like the IGF should be held in countries … Continue reading
Back from Baku
I have returned from Azerbaijan, where I attended the Internet Governance Forum as part of the Freedom House delegation. As the Azerbaijani state security services can likely attest, I had an awesome time, and hopefully I will be back there … Continue reading
A Heated Reaction to the Ramil Safarov Case
I have received a lot of emails and comments from Azerbaijanis critical of my Al Jazeera article on Ramil Safarov, The axe murderer who became a Facebook hero. Most of them were from Azerbaijanis saying that Safarov should be considered … Continue reading
The homecoming of Ramil Safarov
For Al Jazeera, I write about the strange, sad case of Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani officer who murdered an Armenian officer at a NATO camp in Hungary in 2004, was sentenced to prison in 2006, and was extradited last week … Continue reading
Internet at Liberty
Last week I presented during the “lightning round” of Google’s Internet at Liberty conference. This meant that I had to turn an extensive study Katy Pearce and I did of internet freedom in Azerbaijan into a five-minute spiel. The full … Continue reading
Why does Azerbaijan hate the internet?
Katy Pearce and I have a new article on social media in Azerbaijan. For Slate, we discuss how the Azerbaijani government is clamping down on the internet before Eurovision. Instead of censoring the internet outright, they are waging a propaganda … Continue reading
Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan
Katy Pearce and I have a new article out in the Journal of Communication called “Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan”. We wrote about the reaction to the 2009 “donkey blogger” incident, in which activists Adnan Hajizada and Emin … Continue reading
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