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This article from The Guardian describes what happened when Mubarak tried to shut down social media in the Egypt in 2011. It touches on many issues such as the protests following this event and the relation to censorship and freedom of speech.

This report discusses the conditions of the media in Saudi Arabia. It claims that in 2012 Saudi Arabia media environment "remained among the most repressive the the world." It also talked about the fact that their government justified this repression by saying that it violated the Islamic Sharia law. This brought up and interesting point, because I had never thought about freedom of speech and religious freedom being linked in this regard.

This article discusses Egypt's parliamentary elections in relation to the media. For this election there was a set of rules/restrictions issued for the media when covering content that related to the election.

This article discusses Egypt's parliamentary elections in relation to the media. For this election there was a set of rules/restrictions issued for the media when covering content that related to the election.