CONTENTS

1 JO GLANVILLE Editorial

NEWS ANALYSIS 6 ALEX DE WAAL War games

Saving Darfur is a mission with its own agenda 12 KAMILA SHAMSIE Hostage to a story line

Pakistan is struggling to escape from its image 18 MALEIHA MALIK Speech control

History can teach us lessons about race hate laws

FIRST PERSON 22 LEO MURRAY Diary of a protest

Nineteen days in the life of an environmental activist

CYBERSPEECH 43 JON GARVIE Trading free speech

The end of censorship? 51 FUTURE WEB Don Tapscott

The N-Generation 52 ANDREW WASLEY Only connect

The web has revolutionised activism 59 ETHIO-ZAGOL The hazards of dissent

Blogging in Ethiopia is a risky enterprise 64 RICHARD MORGAN Meredith’s mistake

You can’t take humans out of the equation 70 FUTURE WEB Iran Proxy

Censorship bypass 71 NART VILLENEUVE Evasion tactics

The challenges to online freedom

86 SIARHEI SYS One man’s anarchy

Belarus is tightening its grip 88 FUTURE WEB Xeni Jardin

Exporting censorship

4 INDEX ON CENSORSHIP 04 2007 100 EMILY BELL Users þ tools ¼ journalism

Technology is driving the future of news 106 NII AYIKWEI PARKES Ghana unbound

The web is shifting taboos and traditions 111 STAN COHEN Downloading evil

A test for the limits of tolerance 116 BILL THOMPSON Trust me, I’m a website

Time to rethink privacy 122 CHRONICLE OF DISSENT

Paying the penalty for free expression online 132 GUS HOSEIN They know where you are

It’s getting easier for governments to track us 137 DAVID WEINBERGER Online on message

Political speech isn’t what it used to be 143 FUTURE WEB Shava Nerad

Getting the word out 144 SHIRAZ MAHER Road to jihad

A new generation of extremists is in the making 148 DAVID LIVINGSTONE Taking on the radicals

It’s going to take cyber tactics, not censorship

MARTIN ROWSON Stripsearch 156 STEVEN MURDOCH & ROSS ANDERSON Shifting borders

Utopia hasn’t materialised 160 FUTURE WEB Linden Lab

Virtual worlds 161 YETAAI A breach in the wall

Standing up to censorship in China 165 FUTURE WEB Jimmy Wales

Setting knowledge free

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MEDIA LAW 166 GEOFFREY ROBERTSON & ANDREW NICOL Balancing acts

The state of press freedom in the UK

INDEX INDEX

INDEX ON CENSORSHIP 04 2007 5