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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 [...]

February 16, 2007

DBTB Important Update for Pakistani Bloggers

Don’t Block the Blog (DBTB) is happy to announce to the Pakistani bloggers that some serious progress has been made during the last few of days regarding the internet censorship (blogspot ban ) issue in Pakistan.
Google Inc.’s key representative (Policy Analyst) has been in direct contact with DBTB members in reference to the [...]

February 14, 2007

News and Competition for Pakistani Bloggers

After the release of the last Don’t Block The Blog (DBTB) Press Alert, I’ve been in discussion with several Pakistan based bloggers regarding the problems they are facing accessing specific blogging platforms and blogs in general. While Teeth Maestro expertly continues to source technical solutions to the problem, I’ve been updating with various international (free [...]

February 13, 2007

Mahmood.tv faces potential Libel Suit

If you recall a few months back we had reported that Mahmood.tv was blocked by the Bahraini Government since he was instrumental in exposing the Jamal Dawood scandal. This time around he has continued to be vocal yet again hitting hard at the Minister of Municipalities and Agriculture in Bahrain for his involvement in [...]

February 7, 2007

Pakistan Blogging Situation - Update

For the past few days especially yesterday I have exchanged a number of emails around the globe to figure out a solution for the deteriorating blogging condition in Pakistan which started a few days back as reported by Don’t Block the Blog, Press Release of 3rd February and also on Teeth Maestro’s blog, I have [...]

February 3, 2007

DBTB ALERT - Press Release

For Immediate Release
3rd February, 2007

– ALERT ! –
PAKISTANI BLOGGERS SHOULD NOT
UPGRADE TO BLOGGER BETA

It has been over eleven months since the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has enforced a blanket ban on the entire blogspot.com domain and so far there seems no recourse to the ban despite the repeated attempts of a strong lobby of concerned individuals [...]

January 31, 2007

DBTB - Update

As the blanket ban on blogspot is still persisting after many months, Don’t Block The Blog (DBTB) team would like to remind and recommend Pakistani bloggers that to ensure your continue to have a voice in the blogging community, it is essential that you now choose alternative venues for hosting your respective blogs other than [...]

January 10, 2007

Greasemonkey Script for Blogger Beta Comments

Over the few months pkblogs and inblogs proxy servers have constantly been facing a problem where it was becoming difficult for readers to make comments on blogspot websites. This was primarily due to Google testing its Blogger Beta system.
Mansoor has who had intially created the greasemonkey script for FireFox to help us use pkblogs, [...]

December 10, 2006

Psiphon: Censorship Circumvention Solution

The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has just released an open source application which allows users from countries where there is Internet censorship to utilize anonymous servers located worldwide. The system is a far improvement from the over burdened anonymity software called TOR.
When I was in Manila for the Free Expression in Asia Cyberspace [...]

November 7, 2006

ACT NOW! 24 Hours Against Internet Censorship

Reporters Without Borders have started its online protest. The Internet is increasingly falling prey to censorship round the world. The 13 “Enemies of the Internet” are blocking access to news which displeases them and imprisoning bloggers who express themselves too freely. Join the campaign now to defend the right of all of us to [...]