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By: swDate: 24 Mar 2009Google officially confirmed today that YouTube has been blocked in China, from a steep drop in traffic on the evening of March 23 to “near zero” by March 24.0 comment(s)
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By: swDate: 24 Mar 2009Since March 22, 2009, Internet speeds in Burma have been slowed significantly. Myanmar Teleport (MMT) had announced that the submarine cable SE-ME-WE 3 (South East Asia Middle West Europe 3) will be undergoing maintenance from March 21 to March 25, 2009, but that email service would be maintained. Burma’s other state-controlled ISP, Myanmar Post & Telecommunications (MPT) has not announced any slowdown in Internet access speeds. However, according to Internet users in Burma, both MMT and MPT shut down their service for several hours on the afternoon of March 22.
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By: swDate: 19 Sep 2008Categories: Malaysia, Asia, Arrests and legal action, Publications, Political filtering, Social filteringThe arrest of blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act on September 12, just as his website Malaysia Today (http://mt.m2day.org/) was reported to be unblocked, provides an ominous reminder that there may be more effective ways of silencing independent voices than Internet filtering.
