All Posts Tagged With: "Censorship reporting"
The Risk of Facebook Activism in the New Arab Public Sphere
Over at The Arabist, Issandr El Amrani ruminates on Facebook’s role in Middle Eastern politics, a subject I’ve had my eye on for quite some time. Drawing on the recent example of Egyptian reformer El Baradei and his enormous Facebook following, El Amrani marvels at the level of Facebook use for activism in the [...]
15Mar2010 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
Lite IP Filter: Censoring the censors
“Lite IP Filter“ is a PHP script that monitors and even blocks, if you choose to, IP ranges without using a database server. The script can also detect IPs behind proxies (except for proxies that are completely “silent”). Many situations may require the use of “Lite IP Filter”, including: If you are uncomfortable with the htaccess file, “Lite IP Filter” can block spammers and those who repetitively try to harm your site.
8Mar2010 | Astrubal | 0 comments | Continued
« Censuré pour censuré », désormais Nawaat bloque la police de l’internet
Qui presse “le bouton”, quelle administration et à partir de quels locaux sont exercés les blocages illégaux des sites internet en Tunisie ? Personne ne le sait ! Manifestement, depuis près de vingt ans, il s’agit de l’un des secrets les mieux gardés de Tunisie. Que cette censure soit exercée par un “fantôme hors la loi”, ne nous empêche pas de relever qu’il agit objectivement sous couvert du premier responsable du pays, c’est-à-dire le président de la République.
26Feb2010 | Astrubal | 9 comments | Continued
Deux outils pour les webmasters censurés, notamment pour bloquer la police de l’internet
“Lite IP Filter” est un script php qui permet de monitorer, voire de bloquer des plages entières d’IP, sans le recours à un serveur de base de données. Le script permet également de détecter les IP derrière un proxy, pour peu que ledit proxy ne soit pas totalement opaque
26Feb2010 | Astrubal | 1 comment | Continued
Google has disabled the ability for Nawaat to upload new videos
Update - February 17, 2010: Youtube has restored the rejected video and nawaat’s account. Thank you Google for the understanding and thank you all for the support.
Today we got a message from Youtube informing us that the ability to post new videos on Youtube has been temporarily disabled for violating the YouTube Community Guidelines [...]
15Feb2010 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 45 comments | Continued
في حجب المدونات و كيفية إنشاء مدونة جديدة على بلوجر دون خسارة المدونة القديمة و الروابط الآتية لها
8Feb2010 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Tunisia and Bahrain Block Individual Twitter Pages
First, governments blocked Blogspot. Then they blocked Facebook, and then Twitter. And just when technophiles all over the globe started groaning, a couple of governments got a bit wiser to social media and, rather than block the entire platform for the transgressions of one user, began blocking individual accounts instead. Notably, this has happened in [...]
5Jan2010 | Nawaat.org | 1 comment | Continued
Will Arabic domain names help censorship, create ‘cyber-ghettos’?
Back in October, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, began processing requests for domain names in non-Latin scripts such as Arabic.
In theory, this lowers the barrier for lower-income Arabic-speakers who are unfamiliar with the Latin alphabet to get online.
But for now, at least, registration is limited to official government domains, sparking [...]
30Dec2009 | Nawaat.org | 2 comments | Continued
Internet Filtering in Tunisia - The OpenNet Initiative Report
Although Tunisia has actively sought to develop its information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, the government continues to pervasively block a range of Web content and has used nontechnical means to impede journalists and human rights activists from doing their work. The filtering of political content and restrictions on online activity has [...]
12Aug2009 | OpenNet Initiative | 3 comments | Continued
Herdict: a useful tool to report censorship is now in arabic
The web site from Harvard’s Berkman Center called “Herdict,” which allows worldwide internet users to report about web sites being blocked is now in Arabic and Chinese.
Herdict is a useful tool which is intended to be a fast, crowdsourced means of revealing websites access problem or censorship. For example if you try to visit [...]
30May2009 | Centrist | 2 comments | Continued








