Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
Category RSS 
For Reporter Without Borders, “Press Freedom is the Price for Democracy”
·
19:11, November 7th, 2009
·
“For you, access to information costs one click. In China, it would have cost a journalist seven years in jail”. This is the message you will currently find on the New York Times website as well as on USATODAY.com.
Reporters Without Borders, an international organization advocating press freedom, defending journalists ...
On-line Social Networks in Syria
Syria was among the last countries in the Middle East to introduce the Internet. On February 24, 1996, the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE) received permission from the prime minister’s office to do so, and to serve as the body responsible for the Country Top-Level Domain Code (sy.). Two weeks later, ...
Tunisia: blogger Fatma Riahi arrested and could face criminal libel charge
update 1: November 6th, 2009 - Lawyer Ben Debba said fatma has been transferred to Bouchoucha police station and might be summoned to appear before a public prosecutor.
update 2: November 7th, 2009 - Lawyer Ben Debba said that fatma has been released.
On Monday, November 2nd, 2009, Tunisian blogger and college ...
Iran: More attempts to control the people
These are just some of the actions that have been taken place in order to prevent Iranian Netizens from accessing the Web during the 4th of November:
According to some sources from Iran, the internet speed has become too low and even when using ADSL, it is hard to open emails ...
Butler University drops lawsuit against student
Butler University has dropped lawsuit against Jess Zimmerman. The student was accused of defaming the university in his blog "TrueBU".
Indiana Daily Student says
"He (Zimmerman) was critical of Butler and two administrators: Peter Alexander, dean of Butler’s College of Fine Arts, and Jamie Comstock, Butler’s provost.
He wrote things like “Peter ...
Introducing Threatened Voices
·
12:37, November 3rd, 2009
·
Today, Global Voices Advocacy is launching a new website called Threatened Voices to help track suppression of free speech online. It features a world map and an interactive timeline that help visualize the story of threats and arrests against bloggers worldwide, and it is a central platform to gather information from the most dedicated organisations and activists.
Thailand: Liberal Thai blocked by MICT!
Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT).
We have just discovered free Thai language news site Liberal Thai blocked by a transparent proxy redirecting users to Thailand's ICT ministry.
Liberal Thai is a new websites which has been translating news articles in English into Thai making them accessible to Thai readers, particularly those from ...
