Jillian York

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jillian York
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 18, 1982(1982-05-18)
Age	42
Birthplace	Dover
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Jillian York Biography

Jillian York is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 18, 1982 in Dover, United States. Jillian C. York (born May 18th 1982) is an American freedom of expression activist. She is also director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and an early member of Deep Lab. She is an ongoing contributor to Al Jazeera English, writes for Global Voices Online, and is the author of Morocco – Culture Smart! The definitive guide to culture and customs.

York has been described as “one of the leading scholars on Internet control and censorship” and a specialist in freedom of speech and the role of social media within the Arab world. Her work on the role played by social media during the Arab Spring has been widely quoted. In June of 2011, Foreign Policy named her as one of the top 100 scholars who discuss international policy via Twitter.

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, York was among critics who noted the lack of women on the list. 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.

In May 2014, she gave a talk with Jacob Appelbaum suggesting the safer sex and harm reduction movements could show advocates of liberty and privacy how their work can better reach mainstream audiences.

She is regularly a writer for Al Jazeera English and writes for Global Voices Online, where she was also on its board of directors since 2011. She is also the co-founder of Talk Morocco, which won the 2010 Deutsche Welle Best of Blogs Award for the best English-language blog.

Jillian York Net Worth

Jillian York is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jillian York 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 2004 until 2007 York spent a lot of time in Morocco. The year 2006 was the first time York wrote Morocco in the book titled Culture Smart! the Essential Guide to Customs & Culture A travel guidebook on Morocco. In an article published in 2011 York discussed the purpose blog posts and other social media websites like Facebook offering Moroccans a place for discussion and providing information not available of the main Moroccan media.

In 2008 she was a part of in 2008 the Berkman Center for Internet & Society which is a research institute located at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace which she was a part of the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project that aims to keep track of and examine the practices of internet filtering and surveillance by countries, as well as Herdict as well as conducting studies on distributed denial-of service attacks. As of 2011, She was transferred to the EFF which is director of the free speech in the world.

York’s commentary and opinions include statements against censorship by corporations and social media organizations at the request of state governments. She holds the view that free speech should trump business interests York and EFF opposed the Philippines Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 because of provisions limiting online criticism in favor of a crowd sourced alternative, the Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom which supports free expression and has less stringent limits on free expression online.

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Jillian Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jillian York celebrates birthday on May 18 of every year.