By Curt on Mar 19, 2008 in Free speech, Flood the Jail with Mail, Free Kareem, Imprisoned bloggers, Kareem, Egypt | 10 Comments
In conjunction with FreeKareem.org, the Committee to Protect Bloggers is launching a mail campaign in support of imprisoned Egyptian blogger, Kareem Amer. (If you’re not familiar with the case of this unjustly-imprisoned blogger, please read FreeKareem’s FAQ.)
From April 7 through April 21, both organizations are encouraging their memberships to go analogue and write Kareem a […]
By Curt on Feb 11, 2008 in Walid Al-Saqaf, YemenPortal, Yemen, Free speech, Censorship | 4 Comments
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 […]
By Curt on Jan 20, 2008 in Free speech, Burma, Threatened bloggers, Censorship | 3 Comments
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 […]
By Curt on Jan 17, 2008 in Burma, Free speech, Blogger, Blocked, Threatened bloggers, Censorship | 1 Comment
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 […]
By Curt on Jan 13, 2008 in Free speech, United States, Anti-Free Speech Laws, Threatened bloggers, Censorship | 0 Comments
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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By Curt on Jan 10, 2008 in Free speech, Australia, Anti-Free Speech Laws, Censorship | 0 Comments
According to OpenNet Initiative, Australia has taken another, most more drastic step to censor the Internet for the whole country.
The Australian Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy announced on December 31 2007 that mandatory filtering of the Internet would be instituted there. This announcement follows the Rudd government’s plan to provide a “clean feed internet service […]
By Curt on Jan 10, 2008 in Free speech, Anti-Free Speech Laws, U.S., Censorship | 2 Comments
According to the New York Times, a Boston area judge has issued an injunction stopping a blogger from posting. Judge Thomas Devine in the U.S. state of Vermont has ordered William Krasnansky to take down all posts referring to his wife or marriage from his blog. Krasnansky and his wife, Maria Gallido, are in the […]
