2010 August

August, 2010

Monthly archive · 24 posts

Stories from August, 2010

20 August 2010

Our Guide “Mirroring a Censored WordPress Blog” is now available in Arabic

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Advocacy, activism

This guide is for bloggers with self-hosted* WordPress blogs who believe their sites may be blocked by government filters. Its goal is to help bloggers use a mirror site to make censored content available to readers despite these filters. It contains step-by-step instructions for setting up a mirror for an original (”source”) WordPress blog.

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18 August 2010

A First glimpse at the Internet Filtering in Tunisia

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Tunisia, Middle East & North Africa

We learned that the censorship imposed illegally on hundreds of Tunisian blogs and websites, both Tunisians and foreigners, was “shut off” temporarily for few hours on Monday, August 16, 2010....

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Online dictatorship in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Written by eli · Iran

Since the post-presidential election of 2009, the Islamic republic of Iran has intensified its crackdown on media including bloggers and even micro-blogging environments like Facebook and twitter. Although the crackdown...

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17 August 2010

Spaniard bloggers react to the Google-Verizon proposed policy

Written by Juan Arellano · Europe

Spaniard bloggers have been very busy discussing and arguing about the recent Google-Verizon proposed policy for an open Internet. Most of them are against it because they consider it a...

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15 August 2010

Iran: One of Mayor's sites was filtered

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

According to reformist Kalmeh, and several bloggers, Iranian authorities filtered “Khbargozarieh Shar” (means city's news agency). This site belongs to Tehran's Mayor and no information about the reasons for this...

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12 August 2010

Iran: Hamed Saber is out of jail

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Aftab News reported on 9th of August that Iranian photo-blogger, Hamed Saber, was released on bail.

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Facebook Responds to Activists

Written by Jillian York · Feature

I’ve been writing about Facebook woes for nearly four months, so imagine my surprise yesterday when I received an e-mail from a Facebook staffer in response to my blog posts. Since I don’t have said staffer’s express permission to use his name or post his e-mail in its entirety, I will instead post the most remarkable excerpts with my own notes.

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