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 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 Dec 6, 2007 in Lebanon, Lisa Goldman, Israel | 1 Comment
Update: Lisa has published an op-ed on her situation on Ha’aretz, entitled “Why us - and why now?” It seems that the chief factotum of the Israeli Government Press Office, Daniel Seaman, may have had an axe to grind. The truth will out, I imagine.
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Update: Lisa finally made a statement on her blog, On […]
