[FM Discuss] Press Release: Tunisian Activists Teach How To Bypass Internet Censorship

[Lachlan Musicman]

Was this on a website somewhere? I know some journos, but only by
twitter handles, not emails....

cheers
L.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 01:21, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
>
> *In New Book, Tunisian Activists Teach How To Bypass Internet Censorship*
>
> As the Arab spring turns to Arab autumn, with battles continuing to rage on
> throughout the Middle East, one intrepid group of Tunisian activists has
> recently released a handbook to help their peers fight the power – by
> breaking through government firewalls and getting on-line. The book entitled
> *Contourner la censure (et préserver son anonymat) *or *How To Bypass
> Internet Censorship (and Preserve Your Anonymity)* was originally created in
> English during a five-day relay book writing event, known as a “Book
> Sprint”, which took place in Berlin in late February of this year; it was
> subsequently *released via the FLOSS Manuals platform (FLOSS being an
> acronym for Free Libre and Open Source Software)*. FLOSS Manuals is a
> project founded and lead by New Zealand-born, Berlin-based social
> entrepreneur, Adam Hyde who says, “FLOSS Manuals is a community of about
> 3,000 registered contributors, working collaboratively across many languages
> and many countries to produce free documentation about free software. We
> often work together on projects related to human rights and advocacy and we
> are happy to do so since the areas of human freedom and software freedom are
> often closely interlinked .”
>
> While the majority of books available on the FLOSS Manuals site are more
> “high-tech how-to” (with titles related to popular web tools such as
> WordPress and Firefox) than “fight the power”, *How to Bypass Internet
> Censorship*, was put together by a knowledgeable and concerned group of
> hackers and activists  to “not only help you find your way in the diversity
> of tools and techniques that allow you to defeat Internet censorship
> and...also tell you more about how censorship works behind the curtain”.
>
> The recent Tunisian translation was organized by the Tunisian Association
> for Digital Freedom and represents a collaboration between FLOSS Manuals,
> The Digital Freedom Coalition, The International Federation for Human
> Rights, and Tunisian news and activism portal Fhimt.com.
>
> Since February 2011, *How To Bypass Internet Censorship (and Preserve Your
> Anonymity)* has been translated into Arabic, Farsi, French, Spanish, and
> Vietnamese, and organizers say that Chinese and Burmese versions are
> forthcoming
>
> *For more information, see: *
> http://contournerlacensure.net/
> http://www.howtobypassinternetcensorship.org/
> http://flossmanuals.net
>
> *Contact:
> Camille E. Acey
> FlossManuals.net
> +1 (347) 267 2016
> press at flossmanuals.net*
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