Latest posts by Sami Ben Gharbia
Tunisia's ban on Facebook lifted
The ban on the popular social networking website Facebook has been lifted in Tunisia since yesterday 3 September 2008 after a massive protest by Tunisian Netizens. Tens of Facebook groups protesting the ban have popped up in recent weeks surrounding this issue. But, according to Al Chourouk newspaper, the President...
Founder and webmaster of Ingush opposition website killed
The founder and webmaster of the Ingush opposition news website Ingushetiya.Ru, Magomed Yevloyev, was killed while in police custody. His website reported that Magomed was shot in the head after being arrested by the Ingush authorities on his arrival at Nazran (Magas) airport. He has passed away in hospital.
Silencing online speech in Tunisia
Blocking web 2.0 websites (Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook) and barring access to local outspoken websites and blogs is the most obvious way of cracking down of the online free speech in Tunisia. It should be emphasized, however, that this is only one tool in the regime’s hand. Tunisia has adapted to the web 2.0 revolution by developing a broader strategy composed of a wide range of instruments
Tunisia seems to have blocked access to Facebook
Tunisia seems to have blocked access to Facebook today. Some Tunisian bloggers in the country report being unable to access the popular social networking website and took several screenshots of the fake 404 blockpage. Tunisia is also blocking access, permanently, to both popular video-sharing websites, Youtube (since Since November 2nd,...
Turkey: Dailymotion blocked
Access to the french video-sharing website Dailymotion.com has been blocked in Turkey since August 2nd 2008. According to Erkan Saka, an Istanbul-based blogger, “the decision to ban the site came without any explanation.” This is the second instance of a popular video-sharing website being blocked in Turkey. YouTube was blocked...
Advox Conference: Stephanie Hankey's slides about Tactical Technology Collective
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Nart Villeneuve's slides on censorship circumvention
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Andrew Heavens on Censorship in Ethiopia
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Rezwan on Self Censorship in media Role of citizen journalists
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Oiwan Lam on The Formation of a post-colonial censorship regime
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Amine on Exposing Corruption on YouTube “Targuist Sniper”
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Robert Guerra – Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Hamid Tehrani about the filtering situation in Iran
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Awab Alvi on the Battle For A Cyber Free Pakistan
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Towards a Global Anti-Censorship Network” on 27th June 2008 Battle For A Cyber Free Pakistan from Teeth Maestro
Advox Conference: Chris Salzberg on Web Censorship and Public Awareness in Japan
Chris Salzberg discusses internet regulation and censorship trends in Japan Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Towards a Global Anti-Censorship Network” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Andrey Abozau talks about the Belarusian situation
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Toward a Global anti-censorship network” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox workshops: Robert Guerra on the user perspective
Online Free Speech: Toward a global anti-censorship movement – The User perspective from robertguerra What do people really use, challenges they have, and recommendations for the future.
Advox workshops: Rob Faris on Internet filtering
The future of Internet filtering and the role for activists in documenting filtering. The changing political, legal, social and technical aspects of Internet filtering and discuss a new distributed tool that we are developing to aggregate information on global filtering. | View | Upload your own
Advox workshops: Nart Villeneuve on Detecting internet filtering
Detecting internet filtering Some techniques that people can use to increase the accuracy of censorship reports. | View | Upload your own
Advox workshops: Roger Dingledine on Tor and blocking resistance
A brief overview of Tor and its blocking-resistance design What assumptions we make about government firewalls, how our circumvention approach actually works, and how it's going so far. And if possible, addressing how to better leverage the small number of people who choose to use it as influencers of opinion and disseminators of...
