According to several news sites Iran’s parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet. According to this draft bill bloggers can face the death penalty too.
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A large number of activists have gathered in Budapest to discuss about threats to online free speech and finding out ways towards a global anti-censorship movement.
The morning session has started and in the opening remarks the co-founder of Global Voices Online Ethan Zuckerman thanked everybody who came to the summit. Sami Ben Gharbia, the Advocacy [...]
Change4equality says [Fa] that 12 Iranian sites supporting women’s rights such as Change4equality or Photochange got filtered by Iranian authorities today,19th of May.
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Based on Hamed Saber’s “Access Flickr” Firefox extension, which enables users to circumvent the filter currently in effect in Iran and in few other countries that block Flickr, the popular photo-sharing website, another Iranian developer, MohammadR, has released “FreeAccess Plus!“, a nifty extension that turns Firefox into a proxy that bypasses censorship on popular Web [...]
read full post »Radio Free Europe reported that police force in Iran’s capital, Tehran, have raided Internet cafes closing down 25 and warning 170 cafe owners for “using immoral computer games and storing obscene photos,” and for the presence of women without “proper hijab”. According to the report, 23 people have been detained during this latest campaign against [...]
read full post »According to Download Squad, access to the popular social networking website Facebook has been blocked in the United Arab Emirates. Some UAE internet users are confirming that the ban was ordered by the government-owned Etisalat. The Administrator of itihad.net (UAE) called up his ISP’s call center and they stated that they are blocking Facebook. [...]
read full post »Iran has blocked access to Google search engine and Gmail Google’s free webmail service, Mehr news agency reported today. “I can confirm these sites have been filtered,” said Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran’s National Council of Information.
Update:“Due to an error, the Google site was filtered on Sunday evening but the error was corrected and [...]
