Committee to Protect Bloggers

Some goings on in Yemen are so peculiar and unbelievable as to be Orwellian. Please read the letter below from Walid Al-Saqaf, admin for Yemen Portal. He’s put up with harassment in the last few months, as have many Yemeni journalists and citizen news sites. Now he and his colleagues may find themselves up against […]

Update: Lewis wrote us.
Im in Beijing and Youtube.com is unblocked but veoh.com is blocked. Please check this.
Can anyone else confirm?
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Your website is blocked also but i am using a proxy to get it but it doesnt
work with videos.CNET reports that China has unblocked YouTube. They also ask, did Google have a direct hand in the […]

Update: Our playlist has been referenced and linked to by both the New York Times and Canada’s National Post.
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I’ve created a Committee to Protect Bloggers YouTube account and within that have created a Tibet Protests playlist. I’ve aggregated first-person videos from the protests as well as international news coverage. Please let me know if I’ve […]

The Associated Press reports that today the Chinese government has blocked the video-sharing service YouTube. The block was in response to the posting of dozens of videos showing footage of the Tibet riots. Like last year’s Burmese riots, these have also been led by monks and have resulted in over 80 deaths so far.
This block […]

Subsequent to her conversation with us, Wall Street Journal reporter Vauhini Vara succeeded in getting a response, of sorts, from Facebook. She asked the company whether they had turned over information to the Moroccan security forces on the identity of their former user Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada was sentenced to three years in prison for creating […]

On February 18, Jeffrey White, a California District Court judge issued an injunction against Wikileaks, a whistle-blower site.
Part of the injunction appears on the Wikileaks site.
Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website […]

A car belonging to YemenPortal, was vandalized today. Editor Walid Al-Saqaf indicated in a note that he believes official representatives of the Yemeni government directly responsible. He believes the action was a result of his attempt to provide alternative URLs for his site. He created an alternative domain and emailed it to several hundred subscribers […]

Burmese blogger Niknayman, who was central to getting news out about the country during the recent crackdown, wrote us this morning, enclosing a report on the anti-blogger efforts of the tinhorns during and after the crackdown. You can download a copy of the document, which contains the screenshots the blogger mentions, below.

Attack on Burmese Blogs […]

Mizzima reports that the tinhorns in Burma have, through the country’s two ISPs, blocked access to the Blogger.com blogging platform (also known as Blogspot).

In a bid to stop the flow of information outside Burma one of the most popular blog sites www.blogger.com has been banned by the Myanmar Post and Telecomm Ministry as of […]

Several decisions in U.S. courts recently, in Arizona and New Jersey, have recognized the right to blog anonymously. A Dodd-led filibuster in the U.S. Senate pushed back a vote on a bill that would have made more spying on U.S. citizens legal and would have given telecoms who’ve helped in illegal surveillance activities immunity.
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