By Victor on Aug 14, 2008 in Media coverage, Citizen journalists, Blogger, Twitter, China, Censorship | 0 Comments
Chinese citizen journalist, Zhou ‘Zuola’ Shuguang was today placed under a kind of ‘town arrest’ by Chinese authorities. Apparently he was able to tweet the incident, oh the joys of twitter, and his followers quickly got the word out.
The authorities seemed to be uncomfortable with his intention to travel to Beijing and blog about the olympic […]
By Curt on Apr 1, 2008 in del.icio.us, Twitter, Facebook, Committee to Protect Bloggers | 0 Comments
There are three ways to get additional information on threatened bloggers and threats to bloggers from the Committee to Protect Bloggers. Sometimes there are stories that we don’t write up as separate posts but provide context or depth to your picture of the state of free speech for bloggers worldwide. These vehicles will give you […]
By Curt on Sep 9, 2007 in Twitter4Kareem, Twitter, Kareem | 1 Comment
Kareem Amer, the Egyptian blogger, was arrested on November 6 of last year. Kareem was a young university student, a native Egyptian from a Muslim family, who thought, and spoke, critically about both Islam and Egypt. That got him a four year jail sentence. For more information on Kareem, check out FreeKareem.org, especially the Kareem […]
By Curt on Aug 30, 2007 in UAE, Twitter, Blocked | 1 Comment
Over the last several months, a number of bloggers in the United Arab Emirates have reported that Twitter has been blocked in their country. One just confirmed it is still blocked. Where else is Twitter blocked? What’s the fear, with a limit of 140 characters? I suspect it has to do with the quick dissemination […]
