21 October 2009

Stories from 21 October 2009

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps launch 40 IRGC’s blogs

  21 October 2009

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that more than forty blogs have been created to struggle against IRGC’s enemies on cyber space. This action has taken place in the township of Arak,in the southwest of the Markazi province.

Video: How Police & Customs Officers deal with Bloggers at Cairo Airport?

  21 October 2009

Today, 21 October 2009, Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas was stopped by security officers at Cairo airport while his coming back to Cairo. From his last two experiences, Abbas didn’t travel with his laptop or CDs, flash memories and camera memory cards, since they were confiscated earlier this year. So nothing...

Macau: Political filtering

  21 October 2009

Netizens from Macau discovered that the largest forum in Macau, cyberctm, has activated keyword filtering mechanism and filtered away the term “Chief Executive” as well as its substitution “Chief Thief”. The so called “Chief Executive” or C.E (in Chinese 特首)is the head of the Macau Special Administrative Region and the...

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