Dr. Awab Alvi gave a presentation on the Don’t Block the Blog campaign at the which is trying to get Blogspot unblocked in Pakistan. (His presentation can be downloaded here.) Pakistan has experimented with filtering porn in the past and now filters *.blogspot.com among several others. Reba Shahid of spider.tm gave me copies of the [...]
April 19th 2006 
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The Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace in Manila is generating great discussion on aspects of censorship on the Internet. There were some great sessions that discussed the idead of “wiggle room” in confined speech spaces. Kunda Dixit of the Nepali Times talked about the information blackout that occured after the coup in Nepal. He discussed [...]
April 18th 2006 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Xeni Jardin has a nice peice in the NY Times about exporting censorship:
American technology companies are taking heat for helping China’s government police the Internet. But this controversy extends well beyond China and the so- called Internet Gang of Four: Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft. Just how many American companies are complicit hit home for [...]
March 16th 2006 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Here is a great first hand account of of the state of the Internet in China. Of particular note is the point about network administrators blocking access to their networks from China (for reasons of spam etc… in effect a form of geolocation filtering).
After investigating the problem, I discovered that it was not a firewall [...]
January 11th 2006 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Microsoft’s MSN Spaces is now removing Chinese language blogs that contain politically sensitive terms. Not only are users unable to create posts that contain certain keywords in the title through technical means, entire blogs are now being shutdown. Michael Anti, an pro-democracy blogger, had his blog shutdown by MSN. Microsoft responded with:
As a multi-national [...]
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