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Cat's Guide To Internet Freedom: An Illustrated Guide to Protocols, Privacy, Censorship, and Governance Hardcover – Illustrated, 10 September 2020

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An accessible, comic book-like, illustrated introduction to how the internet works under the hood, designed to give people a basic understanding of the technical aspects of the Internet that they need in order to advocate for digital rights.

The internet has profoundly changed interpersonal communication, but most of us don't really understand how it works. What enables information to travel across the internet? Can we really be anonymous and private online? Who controls the internet, and why is that important? And... what's with all the cats?

How the Internet Really Works answers these questions and more. Using clear language and whimsical illustrations, the authors translate highly technical topics into accessible, engaging prose that demystifies the world's most intricately linked computer network. Alongside a feline guide named Catnip, you'll learn about:

- The How-What-Why of nodes, packets, and internet protocols
- Cryptographic techniques to ensure the secrecy and integrity of your data
- Censorship, ways to monitor it, and means for circumventing it
- Cybernetics, algorithms, and how computers make decisions
- Centralization of internet power, its impact on democracy, and how it hurts human rights
- Internet governance, and ways to get involved

This book is also a call to action, laying out a roadmap for using your newfound knowledge to influence the evolution of digitally inclusive, rights-respecting internet laws and policies.

Whether you're a citizen concerned about staying safe online, a civil servant seeking to address censorship, an advocate addressing worldwide freedom of expression issues, or simply someone with a cat-like curiosity about network infrastructure, you will be delighted -- and enlightened -- by Catnip's felicitously fun guide to understanding how the internet really works!

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Publisher : No Starch Press; Illustrated edition (10 September 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 120 pages
ISBN-10 : 1718500297
ISBN-13 : 978-1718500297
Dimensions : 20.96 x 1.4 x 26.19 cm

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ARTICLE 19 is an international non-profit organization that seeks to promote, develop, and protect freedom of expression, including access to information. Headquartered in London, with offices in Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Senegal, Tunisia, Myanmar, and the USA, ARTICLE 19 works to bridge the knowledge gap about Internet infrastructure and why it matters for people.

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Patrick Bohan (ARKBAN)

Great images, dense text, last 1/3 is preachy

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Thoughts:
- The images are great, I wish there we more of them
- The text is still often times too dense and technical for someone who has zero-to-little knowledge. I would have preferred more pictures and less text.
- The last 1/3 of the book is a bit preachy about privacy and control. While I agree with most of what is said there, it wasn't what I expected, and could be off putting to those with little knowledge. I wish the facts and opinions in the end were separated a bit, at least to make it clear which prose is objective and which is subjective.

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- I (a computer nerd by night, software engineer by day) enjoyed it and knew or was able to understand most everything.
- My wife (computer savvy, but not a developer) liked it but was confused at times and had questions.
- Mother-in-law (computer capable, a more typical computer user ) didn't understand most of it and said she'd rather just ask me.

Kody

Humorous and educational

Reviewed in the United States on 24 December 2020

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Good book for non-technical people to understand technical concepts. There are pictures. If you work in IT or Security, keep it handy and just point co-workers to page numbers😂

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