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Did you read this very shocking news? Many of you must have seen this headline in an Indian newspaper: Footwear store in Geneva uses Buddha statue to hang shoes. An Indian family was walking down a street in Geneva when they chanced to see shoes.
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Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
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The situation in Iran is still abuzz on Twitter, but what can the Iranians access online? HerdictWeb’s got a list, built on reports from users. If you can, do...
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Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly...
made popular Jun 2 2009
It seems as if China is blocking Twitter as well as Microsoft’s new search engine Bing. Other blocked sites is WordPress.com, YouTube, Flickr, Hotmail and several...
made popular Jun 2 2009
Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
made popular May 28 2009
Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
made popular May 25 2009
Here is the dishonorable list of the Ten Worst countries for bloggers. The list is not surprising, not the inclusion of Tunisia or China.
It is in these countries...
made popular May 1 2009
Last night while marinating some chicken, I was watching the season finale of “Heroes.” During a tense climactic scene, the main villain uses his...
made popular Apr 29 2009
It seems as if microblogging service Plurk is blocked in China, at least according to Amir Salihefendic who works on the project. TechCrunch seemingly confirms. Bad...
made popular Apr 24 2009
Committee to Protect Bloggers reports that TinyURL has been blocked in Saudi Arabia. The URL shortener service is not the only option out there for your shortened URLs,...
made popular Apr 17 2009
Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...
made popular Apr 8 2009
The Freedom on the Net Index has ranked Tunisia second only to Cuba and on par with China in censoring the Internet. The Tunisian government is notorious for blocking...
made popular Apr 4 2009
Video browsers in general, and bloggers in particular, should know that China has blocked YouTube. The Reuters report tells us that the ban has been in place over the...
made popular Mar 25 2009
Yesterday I titled a post “Is Dubai Becoming The Next Saudi Arabia?” The post concerned the soon-to-be legally enforced code of conduct in Duabi whose...
made popular Mar 24 2009
Huffington Post has an interesting piece up on Omid Reza Mir Sayafi’s death in an Iranian prison, written by an Iranian student (under a pseudonym of course). It...
made popular Mar 23 2009
Imagine being jailed for simply blogging about your conversion to Christianity or for criticizing your government or your religion, but this is exactly what is...
made popular Feb 2 2009
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The latest issue of The Economist will not be distributed in Thailand because of its coverage of the country’s monarchy, the magazine said.
made popular Jan 26 2009
Earlier this week, China announced that it was taking action against the main search websites including Google and Baidu. Baidu has apologized for the published...
made popular Jan 7 2009
China, since last month, has gone another step further and has begun accusing sites like Google for displaying morally controversial items such as pornography and...
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Though some articles have completely horrified me, with racist remarks and hateful messages, I don’t think they should be edited or altered in anyway, they...
made popular Jan 6 2009
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Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
made popular Jun 25 2009
China’s top legislature Monday reviewed for the first time a draft revision to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, underlining the cutoff of Internet or other...
made popular Jun 23 2009
It is troubling enough that Italy’s rhetorically offensive Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi comes from a family that controls “half the television output,...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Amid repeated threats by President Hugo Chavez to shut down the Globovision television station, government prosecutors Thursday indicted the station’s main owner...
made popular Jun 5 2009
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Tiananmen Square, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you all are familiar with and so is with censorship in china. Freedom of expression is something that...
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Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly...
made popular Jun 2 2009
Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
made popular May 28 2009
Well, media in our times is primarily money oriented. It needs money to conduct its business. Money in our times comes easily via sex related stories or via...
made popular May 4 2009
There is no good dictator and there never was a good dictator, perhaps, some dictator was more benevolent than was another dictator but the, fact of the matter was and...
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The Freedom on the Net Index has ranked Tunisia second only to Cuba and on par with China in censoring the Internet. The Tunisian government is notorious for blocking...
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Though some articles have completely horrified me, with racist remarks and hateful messages, I don’t think they should be edited or altered in anyway, they...
made popular Jan 6 2009
The former president of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf stepped (or leapt up) to the presidency with a free-media policy, or at least claimed so. While the...
made popular Dec 16 2008
Political freedom is usually described as the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression. Often word...
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Democracy is a form of government in which power is held by people under a free electoral system. To date, democracy is thought to be the most successful form of...
made popular Dec 10 2008
It is true. The Chinese government has sentenced Chen Dhaojun after declaring him guilty of inciting subversion of State power. His crime he wrote online articles...
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It is a matter of fact that the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes fear the truth, therefore, they fear even the mere words and ban the free opinion and expression....
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I was watching Friday (7th November 2008) news from Georgia’s capital Tbilisi where some 10,000 demonstrators were marching against current political leadership...
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EU Observers reports that the famous, or rather infamous and certainly badly understood, proposal by the Committee on Culture and Education concerning blogs and...
made popular Sep 30 2008
Fears regarding troops in Afghanistan arose a few months ago after a Dutch film criticizing Islam would be aired. Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the maker of the film, says...
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