1. Jillian C York was born on May 18,1982 and is an American free-expression activist and author.
11 Facts About Jillian York
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Jillian York serves as Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a founding member of Deep Lab.
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From 2004 to 2007, York spent considerable time in Morocco.
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Jillian York is a founding member of the feminist collective Deep Lab with Addie Wagenknecht.
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Jillian York is the Deputy IFEX Convenor, Sits on the Advisory Council for The Open Technology Fund and the Advisory Board at SMEX.
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Jillian York has been called "one of the leading scholars on Internet control and censorship" and a specialist on free expression and social media in the Arab world.
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Jillian York's writing has been published at Motherboard, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Quartz, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy.
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Jillian York is a regular columnist for Al Jazeera English and writes for Global Voices Online, where she is on its board of directors as of 2011.
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Jillian York co-founded Talk Morocco, which won the 2010 Deutsche Welle Best of Blogs Award for Best English-language blog.
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In 2013, when Wired included few women in its first batch of Wired's 101 Signals, a list of best writers and thinkers on the internet, Jillian York was among critics who noted the lack of women on the list.
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Jillian York thinks that women are sometimes given less recognition as technology intellectuals because they focus on topics less covered by popular tech magazines while in popular topics men can crowd out popular discourse with active self-promotion.