20 years ago today, Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra ‘Ziba’ Kazemi was beaten to death by the IRI in Evin prison. She was detained after taking photos of street demonstrations in front of Evin. She was tortured and raped for 19 days before they killed her.
Je me souviens.
Let’s talk about money!
republica GmbH the festival for the digital society, takes place from 5-7 June 2023 at Arena Berlin and Festsaal Kreuzberg with the motto #Cash.
In her keynote, ARTICLE 19's @maasalan will be discussing internet access control and the human rights situation in Iran with Mahsa at #rp23
Find all information about the program here:
I am continually disappointed (but not surprised) by the people who decide to run platforms for user-generated content who have not bothered to study the last fifteen years of academic, industry, and policy work on content moderation and free speech.
The Elon Musk @TIME 100 tribute piece is quite something:
Twitter has become a nonstop grievance tantrum we must all endure, and he wastes far too much of his time fiddling on his toxic violin while it burns. What’s the opposite of progress? Elon Musk 2023.
ARTICLE 19
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Martijn Grooten
Taylor Lorenz