2010 April

April, 2010

Monthly archive · 18 posts

Stories from April, 2010

13 April 2010

Morocco: Formerly Jailed Blogger Bashir Hazzam Tells His Story

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Morocco, Middle East & North Africa

Blogging can lead to jail in Morocco. Bashir Hazzam learned it the hard way when in last December the authorities arrested him for reporting on the violent events that shook his usually peaceful village. In the following interview the blogger tells his story.

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12 April 2010

Bahrain Bans BlackBerry Chat Groups

Written by Anas Qtiesh · Bahrain

Bahrain recently banned the use of BlackBerry chat groups citing concerns over the “chaos and confusion” that would result from sharing and distributing local news through these groups, according to...

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Thailand pulls plug on TV station, decrees martial law, arrests Webmasters, blocks 10,000 more websites

Written by CJ Hinke · Thailand

Thailand’s draconian Internal Security Act was passed in 2007 in its 11th hour by a national legislature appointed by a military coup. Its targets appeared to be the ongoing insurgency in Thailand’s five Muslim provinces in the Deep South, collectively called Patani.

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8 April 2010

Facebook Deactivations

Written by Jillian York · Morocco, USA

This post originally appeared on Jillian C. York's blog. Over the course of the past week, I've gotten reports from a number of people whose personal Facebook pages have been...

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Taiwan: Police ask for Plurkers' IPs

Written by Oiwan Lam · Taiwan

Plurk is the most popular micro-blogging platform in Taiwan. Recently, in March 29 2010, one of its founder Alvin Woon posted a plurk, saying that he had been receiving letter...

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7 April 2010

Some notes on the case of Noticiero Digital and digital crimes

Written by Marianne Diaz · Venezuela

On past march, Venezuelan President denounced the website noticierodigital.com for "having published fake information, announcing the decease of Minister Diosdado Cabello", and he ordered the Public Ministry to prosecute the case.

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6 April 2010

Chronology of Major events surrounding censorship, hacking, DDOS and online Free Speech

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Global

Given the increasing importance of events surrounding Internet repression, especially after the Iran protest and the Google Vs China debacle, I was trying to collect this data over a period of time then display it on a timeline with useful links and videos (where available).

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