A court in Morocco on Monday sentenced two journalists to suspended jail terms and fines for falsely reporting that the North African nation's King Mohammed VI was sick.
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Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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Interesting to see the doubts about this - staged? real? how did he get away with it? It shows the debased media climate in Iran, but also the genuine uncertainty about where the (moving) boundaries of acceptable behaviour are.
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - The Great Silencing: Intolerance and censorsh... - 0 views
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Mostly about Egypt.
Kuwait to tighten media law after TV station closure - Media & Marketing - ArabianBusiness.... - 0 views
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Kuwait’s Ministry of Information is studying an amendment to the nation’s media law that would penalise content that could prompt sectarian strife
Internet filtering on the rise in MENA, says new report | Menassat - 0 views
ONI Releases 2009 Middle East & North Africa Research | OpenNet Initiative - 0 views
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While not all countries in the Middle East and North Africa filter the Internet, censorship across the region is on the rise, and the scope and depth of filtering are increasing. Testing has revealed political filtering to be the common denominator across the region; however, social filtering is on the rise.
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Based on ONI testing results, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and the West Bank do not currently filter any material; however, none of those are without regulations.
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Bahrain, Iran, Syria and Tunisia have the strictest political filtering practices in the region.
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Marines ban Twitter, Facebook, other sites - CNN.com - 0 views
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"These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries," reads a Marine Corps order
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The Marines' ban will last a year.
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Price Floyd, the Pentagon's newly-appointed social media czar
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I wonder if this will also apply to forum-based communities. I know many in the armed forces, including USMC, play online games such as Cybernations or WoW - a great deal of the interest is in the social side as much as the gameplay.
Washington Times - Senate OKs millions to combat Iran's Internet censors - 0 views
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The Senate has authorized up to $50 million for the development of Web-based tools to help Iranians evade their government's attempts to censor the Internet.
The Victim of Iranian Censorship Act, or VOICE Act, was added to the Senates Defense authorization bill Thursday evening as a response to mass protests following Iran's disputed June 12 presidential elections and concerns that Western companies have sold Iran technology used to monitor dissidents.
Internet-based tools such as Facebook and Twitter have become key means for Iranians to communicate with each other and the outside world about protests over what many believe to be a fraudulent victory by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The U.S. legislation would require President Obama to issue a report on "non-Iranian companies, including corporations with U.S. subsidiaries, that have aided the Iranian governments Internet censorship efforts."
Such identification would make it easier to pressure firms to cease such business with Iran.
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the Voice of America has an office devoted to anti-filtering technology and anti-censorship technology, but its total budget is less than $5 million. It has invested in a Farsi-language version of the Web browser, Firefox, embedded with TOR, a program originally developed by the U.S. Navy, which cloaks the users Web browsing from state monitors.
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when there is money, people will come, and you are seeing a lot of companies retooling themselves to become circumvention providers.
Global Voices Online » Egypt: The Egyptian Apostate - 0 views
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The State Award is not given to anyone based on the degree of his piety or his following of Islam - we are in Egypt not in Saudi Arabia.
Op-Ed Columnist - Tear Down This Cyberwall! - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The push to remove witnesses may be the prelude to a Tehran Tiananmen. Yet a secret Internet lifeline remains, and it’s a tribute to the crazy, globalized world we live in. The lifeline was designed by Chinese computer engineers in America to evade Communist Party censorship of a repressed Chinese spiritual group, the Falun Gong.
Today, it is these Chinese supporters of Falun Gong who are the best hope for Iranians trying to reach blocked sites.
“We don’t have the heart to cut off the Iranians,” said Shiyu Zhou, a computer scientist and leader in the Chinese effort, called the Global Internet Freedom Consortium. “But if our servers overload too much, we may have to cut down the traffic.”
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China is fighting back against the “hacktivists.” The government has announced that new computers sold beginning next month will have to have Internet filtering software, called Green Dam (the consortium has already developed software called Green Tsunami to neutralize it). More alarming, in 2006 a consortium engineer living outside Atlanta was attacked in his home, beaten up and his computers stolen. The engineers behind Freegate are now careful not to disclose their physical locations.
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bullets usually trump tweets
Iran cuts access to Facebook as election looms - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has blocked access to Facebook, prompting government critics on Sunday to condemn the move as an attempt to muzzle the opposition ahead of next month's presidential election
