By Curt on Dec 7, 2007 in Firefox, Saudi Arabia, Flickr, Hamed Saber, Iran, UAE, China | 4 Comments
I discovered today via VentureBeat a Firefox plugin that works to circumvent Flickr bans without the use of a proxy.
According to Digital Inspiration, the plugin, called Access Flickr, was developed by Hamed Saber, an Iranian photographer who uses Flickr heavily.
The Access Flickr extension for Firefox substitutes the HTTP header parameters before sending a request […]
By Curt on Sep 13, 2007 in Muhammed Shouhi, Khalid Al-Asly, Majan, UAE | 0 Comments
According to HRInfo (via IFEX), the Ras Kheima court of the United Arab Emirates has sentenced writer Khalid El-Asly, of the site Majan, and the site’s head administrator, Muhammed Shouhi, to five months in prison. El-Asly and Shouhi were sentenced on criminal defamation charges.
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 […]
