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Turkey: Violating online free speech
Turkey, a modern democracy which takes pride in staying secular despite intense pressure from Islamic fundamentalists, unfortunately is actively engaged in curtailing online free speech.
Since September 18,2009 MySpace, a popular social networking site and Last FM-where you can listen to free music, has been blocked in the country for alleged ...
Once again, Syria bans Facebook
Editor's Note: Facebook has been blocked in Syria consistently for the past two years; therefore, the statement that a ban will be "reintroduced" is incorrect. The linked article from 'Al Quds Al Arabi'," which has since been removed, did not actually claim that Syria planned to reintroduce a ban. The ...
Egypt Interrogating Netizen for a Blog Comment
On September the 3rd, 2009, Khaled elBalshy, the Editor-In-Chief of the Al-Badeel newspaper, who maintains a personal blog at http://elbalshy.blogspot.com, was interrogated by the Interior Ministry's Internet Crimes department for a comment on one of his blog posts left by an anonymous visitor. The comment was in response to ...
Vietnam: Bloggers arrested for ctiticizing China
Vietnam is continuing its crackdown against bloggers.Early morning on September 3rd blogger Nguyen Nhu Quynh, asleep with her young child was arrested by armed security personnel.In July blogger Nguyen Tien Trung was arrested for his free speech activism.
According to Reporters Sans Frontières
"The Vietnamese authorities have arrested another blogger, Nguyen Ngoc ...
The Other Voice: Women in the Cyberspace Discourse in the Middle East and Islamic World
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http://www.dayan.org/Women%20and%20the%20internet.pdf
Tel Aviv Notes, Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University - 30 August 2009.
In recent years, the Internet has become a swift and accessible means of communication, thanks in part to the proliferation of personal blogs and, even more recently, micro-blogs (through “Twitter”). Users are now able to transmit short announcements and ...
Liberia government sites are off, and nobody cares
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On the night of August 24th. S.W.A.T hackers (probably Iranian team) penetrated 19 governmental web sites including almost all ministries. Most of the sites were down for maintenance for almost three days.
Almost all government sites in Liberia fell for days. But when gargbage covers the streets of the capital ...
United States:Google at the center of online free speech debate
Google is at the center of online free speech debate once again. The search engine giant is being sued by blogger Rosemary Port after they released her identity following a court order.
Port criticized former model Lasuka Cohen in her blog-often using harsh words. A Manhattan Supreme Court Judge ordered ...
