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The Web at 25: Free Flow of Information or Censorship?
The web was created with a strong sense of Western values, but China and India are adding billions of new users. What can be done about censorship?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThe web was invented just 25 years ago by a British physicist with a strong sense of Western values. But it's China and India that are adding billions of new users. What can be done about censorship as the worldwide web becomes truly worldwide. Also, all eyes are on Sunday's referendum in Crimea, and reintroducing an overlooked civil rights leader.
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3 storiesAll Eyes on the Crimean Referendum
Russian troops are deployed along the border of Eastern Ukraine, but President Vladimir Putin says he won't decide what to do until after the Crimean referendum on Sunday. In London today, after six hours of talks with Russia's Foreign Minister, Secretary of State John Kerry said the US has already staked out its position .
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The web was invented 25 years ago by a British physicist with a strong sense of Western values. Sir Tim Berners-Lee still envisions a free, open, democratizing system of universal communication.
Read the story33 minPeniel Joseph on Stokley Carmichael
His is a name seldom remembered in the context of America's Civil Rights Movement, but he deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. That's according to a new biography — the first -- about Stokley Carmichael's life. Peniel Joseph is a history professor at Tufts University and the author of Stokely: A Life .
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