The legal notice that resulted in the deletion of some of Hossein Derakhshan’s blog posts by his hosting company and lead to the termination of his blog’s hosting service should raise red flags within the Anti-Censorship community.
First, the notice claims that in addition to Hossein, both the domain Registrar and the web hosting company are [...]
August 15th 2007 
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The use of legal threats is not unique to hoder’s case. Libel and defamation are being used to silence critics around the world. Fresh from GV Advocacy:
Monaco: webmaster accused of defaming the Head of State
… the owner of a new satirical website, featuring cartoons allegedly defaming and ridiculing the Prince…
Tunisia: online writer freed and [...]
August 14th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
The blocking of websites by national filtering systems make content unavailable to those in such countries, but the deletion of content makes it unavailable to all. The blog of my friend Hossein was recently shutdown due to legal threats, making it unavailable to all while it was previously only censored in Iran.
(Hossein’s update [...]
August 13th 2007 READ MORE 13 COMMENTS
[UPDATE: The CRTC has denied Warman's claim. The CRTC documents are available here. ]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is being asked to authorize ISP’s in Canada to block web sites:
One of two U.S.-based hate websites was taken offline Wednesday as an Ottawa lawyer and a Jewish lobby group asked Canada’s telecommunications regulator to [...]
September 6th 2006 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Haaretz reports:
he American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is urging the United States government to disconnect an Iranian news site from American Internet servers, charging that the site has ties to terrorist organizations. The allegation is based on a report published by Haaretz last month.
Is terror the new porn?
August 30th 2006 READ MORE 2 COMMENTS
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