| Written by Afef Abrougui | Sourced from Global Voices (Creative Commons) | Former Tunisian President Zeine El Abidine Ben Ali was an enemy to freedom of speech. With its heavy tactics, his regime attempted to silence all dissidents. The…
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Tunisia: Censorship and Freedom of Speech in the Year That Was
Tagged with: ATI Technologies, Ben Ali, censorship, Mohamed Ghannouchi, Saudi Arabia, Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, Tunisian Internet Agency, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Posted in Censorship, Free Speech, Government Control
Posted in Censorship, Free Speech, Government Control
Pakistan Escalates Its Internet Censorship
Censorship of political content has no place in Pakistan’s democracy, which guarantees freedom of expression. When websites are blocked in a country with over 20 million internet users, people tend to notice. In Pakistan, where the openness of the internet has…
Tagged with: All Articles, censorship, Censorship in America, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the Press, General Censorship, Government, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, Internet service provider, Lahore High Court, Matt Taibbi, Newsworthy, OpenNet Initiative, Pakistan, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
Kuwait: Bloggers Fight Internet Censorship and ISPs
In the past two months, Kuwaiti bloggers have campaigned against the policy of Internet companies in Kuwait which is enforcing a policy of limited bandwidth, highly raising prices in the past year by agreeing between each other on the same…
Tagged with: Al-Watan, All Articles, big brother, censorship, Censorship in America, Corporate Censorship, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Government, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, Internet service provider, Iraq, Kuwait, Kuwaiti, Middle East, Newsworthy, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Twitter
Posted in Corporate Censorship, Human Rights
Posted in Corporate Censorship, Human Rights
Apple Blocks Emails for Objectionable Content
Apple has been silently deleting outgoing mail that contains unacceptable words and phrases. What sorts of words and phrases? Good question! Apple won’t say. It definitely doesn’t like political yammering. Shut up, hippies. One email that has repeatedly triggered a…
Tagged with: All Articles, Apple, AppleCare, big brother, censorship, Censorship in America, Corporate Censorship, Cult of Mac, First Amendment, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Free Speech, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Human Rights and Liberties, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, IPad, IPhone, Macintouch, Newsworthy, Saudi Arabia, United States, Yemen
Posted in Corporate Censorship, Human Rights
Posted in Corporate Censorship, Human Rights
Arrests of Twitter Users & New Filtering
Pakistan In Pakistan, where substantial online and offline censorship already exist, reports have emerged that users of the ISP Mobilink must add proxy 10.215.2.32 port 3128 to browse the Internet, resulting in censorship of key words and phrases in search…
Tagged with: All Articles, censorship, Facebook Service, Free Speech, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Intellectual Freedom, International Business Times, Internet, Internet censorship, Kuwait, Mobilink, Newsworthy, OpenNet Initiative, Pakistan, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Social network service, Twitter
Posted in Censorship, Internet Censorship
Posted in Censorship, Internet Censorship
Internet Censorship Weekly Recap
Tagged with: All Articles, big brother, censorship, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, facebook, Facebook Service, Free Speech, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Government, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, Internet service provider, Newsworthy, Pakistan, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Twitter, YouTube, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
Censorship – Cyber Attacks Threaten Internet Freedom
According to one study, cyber attacks, government control and politically motivated agendas are among the top threats to internet freedom. Today, U.S. based watchdog organization Freedom House released a study titled “Freedom on the Net 2011: A Global Assessment of…
Tagged with: All Articles, Burma, David J. Kramer, Estonia, Free Speech Internet, Freedom House, Freedom of information, Freedom of the Press, General Censorship, Government, Government of India, Indian government, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, Iran, Newsworthy, Politics, Saudi Arabia, YouTube
Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
A Look Back 30 Years: Top 25 Censored News Stories of 1981 – #17. ONE OF THE BEST-KEPT CORPORATE SECRETS OF 1981
AWACS, the acronym for Airborne Warning and Control System planes, was one of the biggest headline stories of 1981. And when Congress finally approved the controversial sale of reconnaissance planes to Saudi Arabia we thought it was in the best…
Tagged with: A Look Back 30 Years: Top 25 Censored News Stories of 1981 - #17. ONE OF THE BEST-KEPT CORPORATE SECRETS OF 1981, Ali Abdullah Saleh, All Articles, big brother, Business and Economy, Business Roundtable, censorship, Censorship in America, Corporate Censorship, Freedom of the Press, General Censorship, Government, Government, Middle East, Military, Newsworthy, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Top 25 Censored News Stories of 1981, United States, Yemen
Posted in Corporate Censorship
Posted in Corporate Censorship
Arab Dictatorships Use McAfee and Other U.S. Technology to Censor Internet and Spy
Source: AllGov Authoritarian regimes in the Middle East have had plenty of help from American firms when it comes to censorship and spying on pro-democracy protestors. One of the biggest players is Intel-owned McAfee Inc., provider of content-filtering software used…
Tagged with: All Articles, Bahrain, big brother, Blue Coat Systems, censorship, Content-control software, Corporate Censorship, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Government, Government, Intel Corporation, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, McAfee, Middle East, Newsworthy, Politics, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Posted in Corporate Censorship
Posted in Corporate Censorship
Saudi Arabia Bans All Protests
Source: VOA Saudi Arabia has banned all protests following several small gatherings of demonstrators demanding change in the conservative kingdom. The country’s Interior Ministry announced Saturday on state television that security forces would use what it called “all measures”…
Tagged with: All Articles, Bahrain, big brother, censorship, Day of Rage, Egypt, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Government, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Intellectual Freedom, Interior ministry, Military, Newsworthy, Oppression, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Shia Islam, Shura Council, Sunni Islam
Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
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