Latest posts by Sami Ben Gharbia from January, 2008
Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide of Blog Advocacy
Download PDF Click on the image to download Global Voices Advocacy is pleased to announce the second of several planned manuals focused on the topics of circumventing internet filtering, anonymous...
Yemen blocks independent news websites
Numerous Yemeni websites have been blocked recently by government-controlled ISPs. Among them is the popular YemenPortal (English version of the site here), Yemen’s first multi-source news crawler and search engine,...
Turkey again blocks access to YouTube
A Turkish court has again blocked access to the popular video-sharing site YouTube over a video clip allegedly insulting the country's founding father, Kemal Atatürk. According to The New Anatolian,...
FreeAccess Plus!: Web 2.0 Censorship workaround
Based on Hamed Saber‘s “Access Flickr” Firefox extension, which enables users to circumvent the filter currently in effect in Iran and in few other countries that block Flickr, the popular...
Thailand: publishing house website shut down
The website of Fah Diew Kan (Same Sky), a quarterly social and political magazine, has been shut down by its host Net Service Ltd for Lèse majesté violations. The move...
Egypt: lawsuit demanding the websites banning is rejected
Judge Abdel Fattah Mourad, who requested the ban of 51 blogs and websites deemed insulting the state’s dignity and threatening Egypt’s interests, has lost his case. On December 29, 2007,...
