Free speech for bloggers worldwide
Category: FilteringBy Curt on Mar 24, 2008 in Filtering, Tibet, YouTube, Blocked, China, Censorship | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Curt on Jan 29, 2008 in YemenPortal, Yemen, Free Kareem, Filtering, Blocked | 1 Comment
Update: Sami sends the following note, via FreeKareem.
Today, It is allowed for anyone in Yemen to Access Free Kareem campaign. It seems that Yemeni Authorities had received tens of letters asking for releasing this site.
Unfortunately, they blocked my newest blog. It is bad to know that I could not access it from Yemen, and my […]
By Curt on Dec 5, 2007 in Uzbekistan, Filtering, Blocked | 0 Comments
According to Transitions Online/neweurasia, blogging has become difficult in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan due to governmental blocking of platforms.
The only blog platform that is active in the country is Livejournal. Though the main page of Wordpress is accessible, the blogs on this platform are not accessible. Blogspot was also blocked for a […]
By Curt on Oct 12, 2007 in Filtering, China's Internet cops, China, Censorship | 1 Comment
Reporters Without Borders has released a detailed 17-page .pdf report on Chinese Internet censorship efforts. (via Google Blogoscoped - thanks, Marshall)
“The government monitors the Internet by means of a skilful mix of filtering technologies, cyberpolice surveillance and propaganda, in all of which China invests massively,” the report says. It then details intersecting lines of authority […]
By Curt on Oct 11, 2007 in Corporate censorship, Filtering, Censorship | 0 Comments
I mentioned before how irate it makes me as an American to see American companies collude in censorship. As far as I’m concerned it is, among many other unsavory things, treasonous. Here’s a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor on the same topic, titled “When US-made ‘censorware’ ends up in iron fists.”
I’d like to […]
By Curt on Oct 11, 2007 in Filtering, Circumvention, Censorship | 0 Comments
The Citizen Lab has released a (.pdf) guide to bypassing censorship, according to Nart Villeneuve. We’ve added it to our blogroll.
By Curt on Oct 5, 2007 in Burma, Filtering | 0 Comments
An article in Forbes today said the Burmese internet is being reconnected to the outside world. The reporter says, “Researchers at the OpenNet Initiative reported Friday that the country’s only Internet service provider, Myanmar Infotech, had begun relaying data again sometime Thursday.” I’m not sure where they’ve said this. I can’t find it on their […]
By Curt on Oct 2, 2007 in Filtering, Censorship | 0 Comments
One of the ways in which representatives, official or unofficial, of repressive regimes dupe the watching world is by providing the credulous and voluble with “proof” that their leadership does not block communications technologies, therefor does not interfere with free speech.
Should a country be accused of blocking a site, the regime’s representatives might send […]
By Curt on Oct 1, 2007 in Filtering, China | 0 Comments
Interesting tool, that allows you to see if your site is blocked in China: Great Firewall of China.
Update: Some are reporting this tool as unreliable.
By Curt on Sep 21, 2007 in Franco Frattini, EU, Filtering | 0 Comments
According to ONI, the European Commission’s Justice & Security Commissioner, Franco Frattini, has turned his attentions to filtering the Internet.
It was recently reported that European Commission Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini is interested in finding ways to filter the Internet for terrorism-oriented activities, including searches for them. In an interview with Reuters, Frattini stated, […]
