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When Sascha Meinrath saw the Occupy encampment in D.C., he saw something few others would — a testbed for technology. ...

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... social media didn't cause the Egyptian revolution,” said Sascha Meinrath, the Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative. ...

... “Despite promising to fulfill President Obama’s campaign promise of enacting network neutrality rules to protect an open Internet, the FCC has instead prioritized the profits of corporations like AT&T over those of the general public, internet entrepreneurs and local businesses across the country,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative. ...

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... Sascha Meinrath, Director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative: “Initial reports on the proposal indicate that it mirrors AT&T’s positions at the literal expense of the general public. ...

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... “I know plenty of people in China who don’t like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don’t want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong either,” says Rebecca MacKinnon, a New America Foundation fellow specializing in ...

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... Receiving phone calls is free in most countries, except U.S. and Canada–that’s why the rate per minute is doubled for these two countries, say Chiehyu Li and Bincy Ninan in a paper published by the think-tank New America Foundation. ...

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Continuing a pattern from the end of the Bush administration, the Obama-era CIA has sharply ratcheted up the use of missiles fired from drones to kill terrorist targets in Pakistan. The New America Foundation tallies that there have already been 46 drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan from January 1 to July 15, compared to ...

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In an excellent New Yorker essay, Steve Coll, a former Washington Post reporter, lamented the death of the traditional model of investigative journalism ...