By Curt on Feb 26, 2008 in Fouad Mourtada, Morocco, World Tech Podcast, Lebanon, United States, Iran, Syria, Facebook | 9 Comments
Update: Facebook responds. Kind of.
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Update: RSF is trying to find out how Moroccan prosecutors determined Mourtada’s indentity.
Reporters Without Borders wonders how the police identified Mourtada. “Did the police get his computer’s IP address? And if so, how? We have asked the ISP, Maroc Telecom, in which the French company Vivendi is a shareholder, to […]
By Curt on Feb 22, 2008 in Morocco, World Tech Podcast, Fouad Mourtada, Media coverage, Threatened bloggers, Facebook, Imprisoned bloggers | 0 Comments
Click here to listen to The World’s Tech Podcast featuring the Committee to Protect Bloggers.
Clark Boyd, technology reporter for Public Radio International’s radio program The World, interviewed us today for their Tech Podcast. We’ll be checking in regularly with Clark on the podcast to talk about threats to bloggers and threatened bloggers around the world.
This […]
By Curt on Feb 18, 2008 in Morocco, Fouad Mourtada, Facebook | 3 Comments
Update: RSF reports that Fouad has already been sentenced to three years in prison for his satirical Facebook page!
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I’m overwrought today, but I need to make time for this. So, with apologies, I’m just going to rip off Carolyn O’Hara’s post from Passport.
Because you are liable to be arrested, blindfolded, harshly interrogated, spat upon, and […]
By Curt on Jan 16, 2008 in Lebanon, Facebook | 2 Comments
Via IFEX:
On 10 January 2008, the prosecutor general of Bekaa arrested four students at Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Zahleh (eastern Lebanon) on charges of slander, libel and public insult following conversations between them on a Facebook webpage that were deemed inappropriate by one of their colleagues who pressed charges against them.
Does anyone have more […]
By Curt on Nov 26, 2007 in Syria, Facebook | 0 Comments
Forecast Highs, the blog by Jerusalem Post news editor Amir Mizroch, has posted this graphic, by Ricky Ben-David, of a theoretical Facebook page that Syria might have.
If you have graphics of what other countries’ Facebook pages might look like, please send them to us so we can post them or leave the URL in […]
By Curt on Nov 18, 2007 in Syria, Facebook | 22 Comments
Update: More confirmation, from a Syrian newspaper. (Thanks, Ammar.)
(OK. That turned into gibberish. What’s a guy gotta do to post in Arabic around here?)
Update: Verified, see comments. Thanks Hazem and Kevin.
We received an anonymous tip regarding Facebook in Syria.
i just wanted to tell you that facebook.com has been banned in syria as well a
few […]
By Curt on Oct 5, 2007 in Twitter4Kareem, Facebook, Kareem, Committee to Protect Bloggers | 0 Comments
A thank you: our Committee to Protect Bloggers Facebook page now has over 500 members. Thanks to each and every one of them.
A reminder: please take a CPB badge or button and post it on your site if you’d like to visually indicate your support for the work we’re doing.
Another reminder: November 6 […]
By Curt on Sep 10, 2007 in Islam, Facebook | 1 Comment
The administrator of a Facebook group called Fuck Islam had his account suspended, according to Mashable. The administrator’s account was suspended apparently after Facebook’s attention was called to the group by a petition signed by 58,000 of the service’s users.
I can’t find “Variable’s” page to confirm it’s back up or not. The group is still […]
By Curt on Aug 29, 2007 in Blocked, Iran, Facebook | 13 Comments
Always striving against China to be in the vanguard of online repression, Iran has banned the popular social network, according to Hamsa via Mideast Youth.
Facebook is the latest social media casualty in Iran, along with Flickr, YouTube and a number of blogging platforms.
Hamsa points out there is, ironically, a Facebook group devoted to ending censorship […]
