The Turkish government has introduced in Parliament a bill that requires a very strict control on the internet. This requires the authorization of internet used activities’ surveillance or blocking specific keywords. This text should allow the government authority in charge of telecommunications to restrict access to video sharing sites, but also to retain for two
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GreatFire, a group of activists and militants, decided to fight against the Chinese censorship by drilling a hole in the “Great Firewall” , the nickname of the digital divide which are stronger than the Great Wall of China. Filtering performed by the Chinese authorities is actually basic and brutal : the domain names of sites
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Just before the presidential elections in Tajikistan, several websites have been censored in the country, including Youtube and Ozodagon a media website. Tajikistan voters re-elected without surprise President Emomali Rahmon on November 6th, for his fourth term since 1992. To demonstrate how open he is, Rahmon had ensured that the opposition could hardly be heard
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The censorship of the incident that happened on October 29th in the famous Tiananmen Square demonstrates the continued commitment of China to eliminate any challenge. But how does China manages to control internet and social networks? … The vehicle that drove into the crowd on Monday 29th and was set into fire under Mao’s portrait
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With 1.2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg’ social network is the most used web network in the world. However, it is still not available in many countries. Some governments block it, want to control the information or to use pure censorship … Here is a list of countries that block or censor Facebook. Bangladesh Internet and
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You may be traveling often and be willing to regularly connect to the Internet freely to book your next hotel, communicate with your loved ones or post pictures on Facebook? If you travel in China, Vietnam, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries, you will encounter cyber censorship. There are different types of censorship, but in
Read More...Expatriates should use a VPN for many reasons. VPN means Virtual Private Network. This type of application creates a secure tunnel between your computer and the VPN server. When the connection is established, you then get a new anonymous IP address. Whereas online security and anonymity are the main concerns of most VPN users, expatriates
Read More...The ban on Facebook in Tajikistan was lifted on Tuesday after complaints about insults to the government forced the social media network to be shut down. According to the state-run communications service, it had received numerous complaints that there was a flood of lies posted on Facebook, and the ban went into force on November 26th.
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Facebook : latest statistics on social media in China, Facebook behind Google+ in China market. An independent research group GlobalWebIndex have recently published a report on the social media usage in China. They have conducted an online survey in Mandarin language used by Mainland China, and asked the following question: “On which of the following services have
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Some countries have strict information censorship policies, including internet browsing. That most of the times results in restricted access to a part of the internet content, including social media websites like Facebook, some news website, web applications and more. How to unblock Facebook in a content-censored country? A VPN (virtual private network) solution like
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