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Before we can take cognisance of the situation in Zimbabwe, we have to be aware that it is much easier to criticise when we are on the outside looking in, than for those on the inside looking out.
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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
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...
made popular Jun 18 2009
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
AP, Bangkok
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...
made popular Jan 6 2009
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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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
Jim Salinger, one of New Zealand’s top climate scientists, has been fired from his job at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa)....
made popular May 4 2009
In today’s world parents always claim that they have given EXTRA freedom or the right to decide things in their life.
I would certainly not agree to this notion....
made popular Apr 15 2009
The call to abolish freedom of speech is the thin wedge of a religious war on civilization!
There is a reason the United States of America is reluctant to pay their...
made popular Mar 30 2009
In “The Outing of a Blogger: Social Transparency or Violation?” I started this short series on the outing of a popular Alaska personal blogger, Mudflats...
made popular Mar 29 2009
We live in an age of transparency. I’d say that “transparency” should have been the word of the year last year, and it’s popularity as a buzz...
made popular Mar 29 2009
I was watching a talk program with Michael Coren last night and his guest was a guy named Ezra Levant.
The name rang a bell and as I watched, and if what I heard was...
made popular Mar 26 2009
From The Times of India:
A 19-year-old blogger’s case could forever change the ground
rules of blogging. Bloggers may no longer express their uninhibited views...
made popular Feb 26 2009
Why is it that when non-Muslims criticize Islam we are called Islamaphobics and racists, and yet nothing is said when they call for death to the Jews and the West? Why...
made popular Jan 3 2009
Last week has shown us the freedom of speach in Czech Republic is not a respectable value for the representatives of liberal democracy, but just a limited right to...
made popular Oct 11 2008
The Afghan parliament has passed a bill making it a criminal offence to play music in parties and wedding ceremonies. For awhile a couple of years ago I believed that...
made popular Sep 24 2008
The 22 years old Moroccan Blogger Mohamed Erraji was arrested on the 5th of September over an article he wrote entitled “The King Encourages His Subject’s...
made popular Sep 14 2008
A couple of nights back, my dad shocks me with the news that my dearest government is considering (with much agree ability) to place certain restrictions on internet...
made popular Jun 25 2008
Many of us would be familiar with some of Lockheed Martin’s greatest hits: the F22, the F35, the F117, the Trident missile, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense...
made popular Jun 1 2008
The media maelstrom created by Bill Henson’s recent attempted exhibition reveals much more than just the most obvious issues relating to the contemporary cultural...
made popular May 29 2008
Freedom House has released it’s 2008 report on worldwide press freedom. The United States ranks #21 on the list (classified as “free”) , while Russia...
made popular May 3 2008
The Olympics was one of the original organized and recorded sporting competitions between countries and people in the known world at the time of its inception. This is...
made popular May 3 2008
Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has confirmed more than 100 death sentences, raising fears over the fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist on death...
made popular Apr 19 2008
Major trouble is brewing for our conservative, Canadian brother and sister bloggers to the north. For those of you who might not be aware, one twisted Richard Warman is...
made popular Apr 10 2008
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