WiredPakistan.com a technology blog and the forum run by KO for the past year has in a very astonishing development come under the censorship umbrella as per the directive issued by Network Operations Center at the Pakistan Internet Exchange.
A careful watch has been setup by Don’t Block the Blog and other organizations to [...]

The Afghan Association Blog Writers (Afghan Penlog), a group of Afghan activist bloggers, have expressed concern for a young journalist Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh who was condemned to death by a local court.
He has been a reporter for Jahan-e Naw (New World) weekly and a student of journalism at Balkh University. According to Afghan Penlog [...]

Global Voices Advocacy newsletter: The leading Saudi blogger, Fouad Alfarhan, who has been arrested in Jeddah on December 10, 2007 for exercising his freedom of speech on his popular blog alfarhan.org has sent a letter few days before his arrest to his friends:
I was told that there is an official order from a high-ranking official [...]

Just to clarify the issue of Free speech, where examples are given of openess in the Western countries (specifically the USA) in comparison to the restrictions on free speech in Pakistan, South Asia and the East, here’s something that is likely to make your hair stand on end. This example epitomizes the changes that are [...]

Reporters Without Borders has just released the latest World Press Freedom Rankings for the year 2007 and sadly Pakistan features in the bottom 20 countries coming in at rank 152 out of a total of 167 countries evaluated worldwide in terms of Press Freedom in the country. For the record Pakistan has mustered enough [...]

Google/Blogspot IP change results in Blogspot Ban in Pakistan
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It has being widely reported throughout Pakistan that access to the entire blogspot.com domain has yet again been blocked in Pakistan. For about four months (since May, 2007) Google fortunately had changed the IP address of its Blogspot servers. [...]

Yesterday a few concerned Pakistanis gathered together at The Second Floor to discuss the Cyber Crime Bill (Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2007). The event was hosted at T2F and sponsored by Alchemy Technologies allowing Barrister Zahid Jamil an opportunity to explain / interpret in simpler terms the impact of this bill on our [...]

Barely a few days earlier Turkey had gone through a similar blockage of the entire Wordpress.com domain being blocked for Turkish users. Reports are now coming in that Thailand has also sadly scummed to a similar bout of censorship effectively blocking the entire Wordpress.com domain for all internet users in Thailand since August 22nd
The [...]

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DON’T BLOCK THE BLOG CONDEMNS CENSORSHIP OF WORDPRESS.COM BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT
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Don’t Block the Blog would like to express its dissatisfaction at the recent development in Turkey where the Turkish Government has been served with a court order to enforce a blanket censorship [...]