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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 03:30:12 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

“Censorship was both a consequence of and a building block of the Apartheid system. There was no real freedom of expression,” says Anriette Esterhuysen about growing up in South Africa. Learn more in her Speaking Freely interview: https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-anriette-esterhuysen
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  Speaking Freely: Anriette Esterhuysen
  
  Anriette Esterhuysen is a human rights defender and computer networking trailblazer from South Africa. She has pioneered the use of Internet and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to promote social justice in South Africa and throughout the world, focusing on affordable Internet access. She was the executive director of Association for Progressive Communications from 2007 to 2017. In November 2019 Anriette was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to chair the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group.
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  Danie van der Merwe (danie10@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 05:37:50 JST Danie van der Merwe
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  @eff actually Apartheid was a blend of both censorship and propaganda - selectively holding some information back, whilst also selectively pushing other information. It is still found today in other governments and industries, in a more subtle guise, to also shape opinions and thoughts.
  
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