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Boing Boing: DNC appoints RIAA shill to run Public Affairs for convention

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:37:06 -0700

Boing Boing - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - Today, Jenni Engebretsen was named "Deputy CEO for Public Affairs," for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver -- but she is better known as the Director of Communications for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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Egypt: blogger Kareem Amer gets 4 years for insulting Islam

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:18:40 -0800

Boing Boing - By Xeni Jardin - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - An Egyptian court this week sentenced blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman (pictured above) to four years in prison. He is the first person in Egypt to be jailed for internet-based journalism. He was charged with "inciting hatred of Islam" and insulting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on his blog, where he wrote under the pseudonym of "Kareem Amer": Link (Arabic), here is his Blogger.com profile, and here are writings he posted on a discussion forum: Link (Arabic).

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Obama campaign announcement calls for fatter intertubes

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:09:04 -0800

Boing Boing - By Xeni Jardin - Feb. 11 (Opinion) - If there was any doubt that the 2008 election season would be the tech-heaviest ever, Illinois senator Barack Obama's campaign kickoff speech this morning put that to rest. He decried the lack of "computers in schools" in the first couple of minutes of the speech, proposed "using technology to cut the bureaucracy" in the nation's health care system, and he called for fatter pipes: "Let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America."

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