<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Walid,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you very much for sharing this - I am sure that everyone else here is greatly worried by the troubles facing your country. I will be happy to disseminate this and if you can think of anything else that the Internet policy community can do to help, please ask.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Mar 2015, at 12:06, Walid Al-Saqaf <<a href="mailto:admin@alkasir.com" class="">admin@alkasir.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">/*** Apologies for cross-posting ***/</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Dear friends and colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Those of you who followed the news lately may have heard about the intensifying conflict in Yemen, which has led to the blocking of of many news and dissident websites. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here's a story reflecting some of what happened:</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.albawaba.com/news/anti-houthi-websites-blocked-yemen-674404" class="">http://www.albawaba.com/news/anti-houthi-websites-blocked-yemen-674404</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is unprecedented and unacceptable. It obliged us as ISOC-Yemen to formally launch a campaign starting with the below statement (both in English and Arabic), which is to be widely circulated and published on our Facebook page here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/isoc.ye/photos/a.366179743512967.1073741827.183351058462504/641852185945720/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/isoc.ye/photos/a.366179743512967.1073741827.183351058462504/641852185945720/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'd appreciate your support by sharing, liking, commenting or take any other actions you can to help our campaign. You can also re-publish the text freely on your platforms.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our intention is to stress that Internet access should not tampered with by those involved in the conflict because it severely affects the confidence of end-users in the Internet as a whole and their ability to use it effectively.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance for your support during those very difficult times in Yemen.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Walid Al-Saqaf</div><div class="">Chair, ISOC-Yemen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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