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30 May 2010

Bangladesh: Facebook Temporarily Blocked

Written by Rezwan · Advocacy, regulation

Bangladesh has become the second country in Asia after Pakistan to block the entire Facebook domain. Bangladeshi bloggers are expressing their astonishment, anger and protest against this ban.

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17 June 2009

OpenNet Initiative Releases Results on Filtering in Asia

Written by Jillian York · Feature

From the Great Firewall to the Myanmar Wide Web, Asia is well-known for its practices in Internet filtering. China has long taken the lead in blocking Web sites, filtering sites...

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8 March 2009

Bangladesh: YouTube and File Sharing Sites Blocked

Written by Rezwan · Advocacy, regulation

Internet users in Bangladesh are not able to access YouTube since Friday (March 6, 2009) evening. Soon people discovered that other Social Media and file hosting/sharing sites like Esnips, mediafire...

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5 October 2007

Internet user profiling and surveillance process initiated in Bangladesh

Written by Rezwan · Bangladesh

We have got some disturbing news from Bangladesh. E-Bangladesh reports: RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) members assisted by BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission) officials are conducting house-to-house searches in Dhaka, Chittagong...

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