[governance] Its Internet Content Censorship, Blocking and Filtering Season again here! Woohoo!

[william.drake at uzh.ch]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/world/asia/critics-see-south-korea-internet-curbs-as-censorship.html?_r=1&ref=technology



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Betreff: Re: [governance] Its Internet Content Censorship, Blocking and Filtering Season again here! Woohoo!

While summer is coming to an end (at least in my part of the world), it seems that censorship is spreading like a heat wave. In Jordan, the ministry of ICT has been pushing for this issue as they have been pressurized by many Jordanian citizens to do so. Even worst, some local hackers have threatened to hack all governmental web content if the government does not filter web content (mainly porno content).

Fahd

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
The Pakistani Telecom Regulator, its Ministry of IT and the Interministerial parliamentary committee are ordering and implementing online content and URL filtering blocking.

This time it has somehow gone a bit too public while the same guy and president of the Internet Service Providers association who first advised and helped the association to support the government to issue an RFP for the implementation earlier this year for implementing a National Firewall for the country is now opposing blanket censorship
crackdowns since he isn't in the loop ;o) So is there a censorship mechanism in place, we would suppose so.

Anyways, its Online content blocking and censorship season again and this time its not even the usually suspected content but more of some intimate phone calls between politicians and heads of government departments hidden marriages and leaks!!!

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-16721-PTA-orders-blocking-of-scandalous-stuff-on-internet

Who needs to talk to the authorities about ITU, WCIT, ITRs etc when they are good at managing critical internet resources ;o)


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