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Image from Canva Pro. Two years ago, fifteen communities from the Nueva Concepción municipality, located north of El Salvador’s central region, gathered to ask the government to halt the construction of a solar plant along the Gavilán Gorge and Lempa River, concerned that access to drinking water would decline. Neither the mayor nor the city council were informed of the project or its details. The solar plant is only one of many renewable energy projects powering Bitcoin mining in the country. La Geo Power Company began using geothermal energy to mine the cryptocurrency under Bukele’s directio...
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Image courtesy Giovana Fleck/Global Voices. As the baton of the G20 presidency passed from India to Brazil in December 2023, digitization has emerged as a focal point for both countries, with Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence at the center stage of conversation and deliberation, both for its benefits and regulations. But, does this enthusiasm for harnessing AI's benefits for their economies and ensuring control over emerging uses of AI overshadow something else? Brazil and India, as two prominent economies from the global majority and strong BRICS members, are also among the countries holdi...
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Image courtesy of Giovana Fleck/Global Voices. The discourse around AI entered Turkey with the naivete attached to most innovations in the contemporary age, just like anywhere else in the world. Could AI drive our cars? Will robots speak to us? Can AI cure cancer? Will all social problems be resolved in seconds now that we have the perfect incorruptible and unbiased technocrat? In short, any existing problem was viewed in the framework of AI. The possibilities seemed endless! AI: the king of the jungle, the mighty lion, will get rid of the flawed pretenders and save us with its perfection. But...
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Punjab Assembly House in Lahore, Pakistan. Image by Voice of America via Wikipedia. Public Domain. On May 20, 2024, the legislative assembly of the state of Punjab in Pakistan passed the Defamation Bill 2024 despite strong protests from the opposition benches and journalists in the gallery. The bill focuses on limiting the spread of fake news across print, electronic, and social media platforms against government officials and institutions. This bill has jurisdictional issue as it would apply to people outside the state of Punjab as well. Under the bill, any individual can be held liable for m...
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Vincent Namatjira, Western Aranda people, Australia in Colour, 2021, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased in celebration of the National Gallery of Australia's 40th anniversary, 2022, image courtesy Iwantja arts, Courtesy of the artist and Iwantja Arts, photo: Iwantja Arts © Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency Aussies love to criticise successful people. It is called “cutting down tall poppies”, a national pastime often referred to by the Australianism Tall Poppy Syndrome. It was no surprise then that Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, eventually became a target o...
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Screenshot from Chow Hang-tung's club on Facebook. Fair use. Detained Hong Kong rights activist Chow Hang-tung was among six people arrested by national security police on May 28, 2024, marking the first apprehensions under the city’s new security law, which was enacted in March. Secretary for Security Chris Tang confirmed on May 28 that the arrests were made in connection with a Facebook group that called for support for barrister and human rights activist Chow, who has been detained under the Beijing-imposed national security law since September 2021. The group was created on May 18, 2023, a...
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Screenshot of a group protesting at Erisco Foods from YouTube Video, ‘Tomato Paste Saga: Groups Protest At Erisco Foods, Demand End To Chioma Okoli‘ by News Central TV. Fair use. In September 2023, a pregnant Nigerian woman, Chioma Okoli was arrested over a negative food review she posted on Facebook. Her offense: annoying a billionaire — a crime punishable by a three-year sentence or a fine of seven million naira (about USD 3,000) under Nigeria's Cybercrimes Act 2015. Since 2015, this Act has been used to arrest dozens of journalists, bloggers, and citizens at the bidding of the country's aut...
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Screenshot: Sky News Australia YouTube video – Same-sex parenting book ban defended by Cumberland City Councillor When Sydney’s Cumberland City Council placed a ban on the book Same-sex Parents in its eight public libraries, it was bound to cause controversy. In addition, the issue highlighted Australia’s record of historical and current censorship. There was immediate online outrage. David Tyler, aka Urban Wronski, summed up the negative reactions: “We’re going to make it clear tonight that … these kind of books, same-sex parents books, don’t find their way to our kids,” Christou said during ...
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Nadezhda Kevorkova standing in court in Moscow. Screenshot from the video “Очередной журналист брошен в тюрьму за посты – Надежда Кеворкова в Басманом суде Москвы” from Sotavision‘s YouTube channel. Fair use. On May 7, the well-known 65-year-old Muslim journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova was arrested in Moscow and sent to a pre-trial detention center for two months in a criminal case for “justifying terrorism.” The accusation is based on the two posts on her Telegram channel “Kevorkova.”. The first one was published in 2018, and it is a repost of the text written by Russian journalist Orkhan Dzhemal...
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Photo of Harinjaka Andriankoto Ratozamanana. Used with permission. On April 1, 2024, an internet price hike saw internet access become a rare commodity in Madagascar. Although internet services are a vital resource in this digital era, they have become a luxury for the select few who can afford them in this country. Global Voices interviewed Harinjaka Andriankoto Ratozamanana, a researcher at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy, to better understand the current situation and disruption in this country’s digital environment. Jean Sovon (JS): The Malagasy digital environment is in ...
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