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August 27, 2007

DBTB Protests Against the Wordpress.com Blockage in Thailand

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 [...]

August 23, 2007

DBTB Condemns Censorship of Wordpress.com by Turkey

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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 [...]

August 22, 2007

Petition to Unblock Wordpress in Turkey

Mideast Youth has set up an online petition to unblock Wordpress in Turkey. Please take a moment to read and sign it.

August 21, 2007

Don’t Block the Blog - Supports Turkish Bloggers

Taking stride from our Don’t Block the Blog campaign that we launched for Pakistan back in march 2006. We would like to show our support for the ongoing problems faced by Turkish bloggers. A Pakistani blogger, Kyla Pasha from Islamabad has been kind enough to whip us a few campaign buttons so that [...]

August 21, 2007

Turkey Blocks Wordpress.com Hosted Blogs

Cross Posted at Teeth Maestro: A few months back in March there was a huge circus surrounding the decision by the Turkish government to block the entire YouTube website as it hosted a video which according to the official government statement was insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Unsurprisingly the [...]

June 4, 2007

Pakistan Government attempts to Control the Internet - Press Release

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PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT ISSUES FURTHER ORDERS TO CONTROL THE INTERNET IN PAKISTAN
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Don’t Block the Blog regrets to announce that the President of Pakistan, General Pervaiz Musharraf, has just signed into immediate effect measures which increase governmental control over the electronic media in Pakistan and which will further erode free [...]

May 30, 2007

Blogger block workaround: Post blogs via Google Docs

This tutorial has been written and cross posted at Dont Block the Blog website courtesy Ovais Khan
In February 2006, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) -the Internet regulators in Pakistan asked the bandwidth providers and ISPs to block various web sites because they carried a variety of blasphemous material (See actual notification here). Two of these sites [...]

April 12, 2007

Lalmasjid.org Blocked

I am sure many have heard and read about the Burqa clad women armed with sticks who were protesting in Islamabad. The set of images has been displayed across millions of websites showing yet another extremist element in Pakistan.
To make matters even worse the government has gone to the extent of literally [...]

March 6, 2007

Pakistan Accidentally Blocks Millions of Websites In a Fumbled Censorship Filter

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In recent news, it has come to light that for a period of four days the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority accidentally blocked millions of websites which suddenly became inaccessible for Internet users in Pakistan. The accidentally blocked sites are popular, non-controversial web pages with high traffic, including Google.com, [...]

March 4, 2007

DBTB Continues to Fight Pakistan’s Internet Blockade at 1st Year Anniversary

Press Release - Don’t Block the Blog Continues to Fight Pakistan’s Internet Blockade at the 1st Year Anniversary
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It has been exactly one year since the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority initiated a blanket block on the entire blogspot.com domain. So far there seems no recourse to the ban despite the repeated attempts [...]