Nico Sell is a US-based entrepreneur and activist for online privacy and secure digital communication.
#IndexAwards2015: Digital activism nominee Nico Sell
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#IndexAwards2015: Digital activism nominee Valor por Tamaulipas
Valor por Tamaulipas is a crowd-sourced news platform, based in Mexico and set up in 2012 to fill the void created by the region’s cartel-induced media blackout.
Ecuadorean cartoonist Bonil facing charges after mocking politician
Ecuadorean cartoonist Xavier Bonilla, known as Bonil and an arts nominee in the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards, faces a hearing today under the country’s controversial communications law.
#MagnaCarta800: Debating the merits of a First Amendment for the UK
On the day when the four surviving copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta were briefly brought together for the first time, Index on Censorship held a debate to celebrate the launch of the winter issue of the magazine.
Why we should be worried about relinquishing our privacy to a secret state
Edward Snowden’s lawyer Ben Winzer talks to Index about his client and what the loss of privacy to the secret state means to the future of free expression.
Finances threaten independent student media
As many campus media struggle to maintain a steady revenue, Index hears from two US university papers about their work and how they finance themselves independently
Padraig Reidy: Let’s ban the word “internet”
We have to stop thinking about things happening “on the internet”, when it’s simply part of human interaction for millions
Ecuador: Why are critics being shutdown on Twitter?
A Spanish company — Ares Right — has been targeting the social media accounts of critics of the Ecuadorean government
Mexico must act to protect online free speech
María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, best known under the pseudonym "Felina", was kidnapped by armed men on 15 October in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The following day a photograph of her body was posted to her Twitter account with messages...
Padraig Reidy: Creeps with cameras and the first amendment
More often than not, the United States’ first amendment forces some real thought and analysis to take place in public life, writes Padraig Reidy.