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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 21 Jun 2010
Global Voices Online and the Social Media Exchange (SMEX) report that Lebanese activists organizing under the slogan Stop The Vote have managed to postpone parliamentary voting for one month (starting June 15) on what they see as a disturbing e-Transactions law. This law, which they see as "[threatening] to create a more restrictive or at least more monitored online environment in Lebanon" has a few troubling articles.
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By: Ellery BiddleDate: 18 Jun 2010In April, quelacreo.com (NSFW), a site that features photographs and video of violent sex crimes, was censored by CANTV.
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By: Ellery BiddleDate: 11 Jun 2010Mexican ‘tuiteros’ responded when police forcibly ended a workers’ strike in Sonora.
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By: Ellery BiddleDate: 11 Jun 2010On Sunday, Hugo Chávez ordered a federal investigation of one of the nation’s most widely read online news sources, Noticiero Digital.
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By: Ellery BiddleDate: 10 Jun 2010A submarine fiber optic cable will improve Internet connectivity in the Caribbean, but could also lead to increased Internet restriction.
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By: Rebekah HeacockDate: 10 Jun 2010South Africa's Deputy Minister of Home Affairs has declared his intent to ban all digital pornography in the country.
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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 08 Jun 2010Turkish internet users have been tweeting that that they have been unable to access some Google Services over the past few days, using the hashtag #TurkeyCensorGoogle.
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By: Alex FayetteDate: 08 Jun 2010Categories: Vietnam, Asia, Surveillance, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Filtering tech and software
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By: Rebekah HeacockDate: 07 Jun 2010In April the Rwandan government suspended two independent newspapers, both critical of the ruling party. The government recently announced it may start blocking one of the paper's websites online.
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By: Rebekah HeacockDate: 07 Jun 2010Last week we reported that Bangladesh had blocked Facebook for offensive content, including depictions of Mohammed and "obnoxious images" of the country's political officials as well as links to pornographic sites. According to the BBC, Facebook has taken down the content and the country has lifted the block.
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By: Rebekah HeacockDate: 04 Jun 2010A year ago this week, I wrote about how China was cracking down on social media sites in preparation for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square. This year, government censors are taking a different tack, making a flood of previously blocked sites accessible. The twist: the majority of these sites appear to be pornography.
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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 02 Jun 2010Categories: Israel, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Take-down, Search result removal, Political filtering
Tweeters and observers The Guardian, TechCrunch, and The Arabist have been wondering if Twitter censored hashtag #Flotilla and search term "flotilla" when it began trending on Sunday night. -
By: Rebekah HeacockDate: 01 Jun 2010Categories: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Obscenity, Hate speech, Social filtering, OverblockingAs Pakistan lifted a two-week long ban on Facebook Monday, Bangladesh began blocking the site.
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By: Jillian C. YorkDate: 19 May 2010Categories: United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Hate speech, Political filtering, Social filtering, Overblocking
Following the creation of a Facebook page called "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day," a Pakistani court ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block the page until 31 May. -
By: Helmi NomanDate: 30 Apr 2010Determining whether a Web site is blocked by a state filtering regime is sometimes a complicated issue that goes beyond finding out whether the site is simply accessible or inaccessible, and requires a multi-disciplinary approach, which ONI has been uniquely employing in its research.
