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25 March 2011

Microsoft Compromises Users’ Privacy: No HTTPS in Arab Countries, Iran

Written by Anas Qtiesh · Activism, Advocacy, Bahrain, Feature, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, News, Regulation, Syria

With the ongoing protestes and violent crackdown from governments in the Middle East, compromising online security could have dire repercussions on the wellbeing of internet users in the region. Email security is...

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26 July 2010

Web filtering In the Middle East using Bing Microsoft's search engine

Written by Tal Pavel · Feature, Jordan, Middle East & North Africa, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Bing, censorship

Research conducted earlier this year examined the extent of Internet filtering in Arab countries made using Bing search engine of Microsoft for terms with a sexual orientation. Bing search engine...

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7 March 2010

Would You Defend The Rights of Your Political Enemies? (on Algerian censorship)

Written by Houwari D · Advocacy, Feature, Middle East & North Africa, Activism, censorship, politics

For my first post on Global Voices Advocacy I'd like to entertain a discussion on an issue that has been bothering me since news of the first censored political website...

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4 January 2010

Algeria Joins Filtering Fray

Written by Jillian York · Feature

Algeria is the latest Arab country to join the ranks of Internet filterers, leaving only Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Lebanon without widespread filtering. The first report of a blocked site came about a week ago, when users on Twitter reported www.rachad.org, the site of political movement Mouvement Rachad to be blocked. The sites have since been reported to Herdict.

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11 June 2007

Algerian blogger taken to court

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia

Today, June 11th, 2007, will be the first time that an Algerian blogger is being taken to court for articles posted on his personnel blog. Abdulsalam Baroudi is being sued...

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21 April 2007

Online Freedom for All: Some cases worth supporting

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · China, Egypt, Malaysia, Syria, Tunisia

In my last article, “Lessons from the Free Kareem campaign”, I talked about campaigning and why some jailed and persecuted bloggers and online writers are winning sympathy, while others have...

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