Kuwait
ONI Blog: When a Canadian company decides what citizens in the Middle East can access online
Users in Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Kuwait reported via Twitter in the past couple of days that they are not able to access the blog hosting platform tumblr.com or any other blog hosted by the platform. This filtering incident surprised both the...
- Posted on 16/May/2011; tagged in Filtering tech and software, Kuwait, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Report: West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011
March 2011
Authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian C. York.
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Executive Summary
The OpenNet Initiative has documented network filtering of the Internet by national governments in over forty countries worldwide. Countries use this network filtering...
- Posted on 28/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, Canada, Filtering tech and software, Internet tools filtering, Kuwait, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Oman, Political filtering, Qatar, Social filtering, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
Country Profile: Kuwait
Background
Kuwait is a constitutional monarchy with a National Assembly (Parliament) of 50 members elected by popular vote. Despite a ban on political parties, formal political groups exist which support MPs and other political candidates.United Nations Development Programme, Kuwait, “Kuwait at a Glance,”...
- Posted on 06/Aug/2009; tagged in Kuwait, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
