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Anna Chen Orwell Prize launch 2014 Jean Seaton chairs at the Frontline Club

Orwell Prize 2014 launch panel: Internet and the modern self with Anna Chen

Anna Chen – 23 October 2013, The Orwell Prize 2014 launch Had a fun time as a guest speaker for the Orwell Prize 2014 launch event held at the Frontline Club last month, talking about ‘Internet and the modern self: manners and abuse online.’ Paul Anderson took this video of my bit. Also on the […]

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SOPA bites the dust but how did the Chinese view the US firewall?

With a mixture of sympathy, schadenfreude and amusement, it seems. Evan Osnos writes in The New Yorker: After several years in which American diplomats have inveighed against Internet censorship in China, the proposals have inspired a bit of snickering. ‘The Great Firewall turns out to be a visionary product; the American government is trying to

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Six New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet

“Hey, someone’s got something wrong on the net! I have to put them right.” One for my lefty buddies, especially some of the weirdos scumming up the otherwise useful Socialist Unity website. I particularly like the prolier-than-thou bullies yelling at working class people how to be properly working class who turn out to be public

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