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goodbye 2011

Digital Trends looks back on 2011

Check out the technology headlines that stuck with our editorial staff this year.

Facebook: We didn’t mean to censor activists

Embracing social media, for better or for worse

London rioters using BlackBerry Messenger to organize

UN declares Internet access a human right

New York free speech activists sue Baidu for censorship

Internal disagreements keeping Facebook out of China?

Syria wages war on its Facebook users

Anonymous directs its efforts toward Iran

A Chinese Facebook is coming and will make huge censorship concessions

Facebook lobbyist says it allows ‘too much’ free speech in some countries

Rebels hijack Gadhafi’s phone network

US developing panic button for activists abroad

The government wants to help activists keep their technology safe with the help of a button that will wipe out all their sensitive information.
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Burma bans Skype, severing global communication

Burma restricts communications even more, and in a country where a cell phone is a luxury, this means reaching out to the world is nearly impossible.

Burma joins the Facebook Revolutions

The success of Internet-enabled revolutions are now reaching as far as Burma, where activists face an extremely brutal government.