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The number of languages spoken worldwide vs. the languages of the internet.
Starting 1pm on Sunday 20 May, Twitter users in Pakistan suffered a total blanket censorship across all Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Pakistan.
Some ISP received an email from Mohammed Ali, Deputy Director (Enforcement) at Pakistan Telcommunucation Authority at around noon to block Twitter.com immediately and ordering them to flush out the cache as soon as possible.
Netizens fear that with this incident the PTA successfully tested their url filtering service which may threaten freedom of speech in the future.
Demotivational Humour from Lebanon
Internet memes are just as popular in the Arab world as elsewhere. Recently a number of Facebook pages have been started about specifically Lebanese memes. In this post Global Voices interviews the creator of a page called “Demotivational Lebanon”.
‘Civil war is more comfy in pyjamas - the only lesson that the Lebanese learnt from the civil war.’
‘I know he will steal from me, but I vote for him because he is from my religious sect.’
‘Planning to buy a house in Beirut? Please tell me which bank you will rob.’
In April 2011, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of India quietly issued ‘Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011’ restricting web content that are designated as “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.”
Moreover, the Indian government has asked the United States to ensure that India-specific objectionable content are removed from the social networking such as Facebook, Google and YouTube. According to news reports they also want these international service providers to set up servers in India to help regulate the content locally.
Indian netizens are not sitting idle. This petition titled “MPs of India: Support the Annulment Motion to Protect Internet Freedom #stopitrules” is circling in the web and more and more citizens are signing.
Protest at Karnataka. Image Courtesy Ashfaq at Just Another Coincidence.
CGNet Swara is a mobile-based news service which enables the tribals of Chhattisgarh to tell their version of stories, in their language. It is an initiative of former BBC journalist & Knight International Journalism Fellow Shubranshu Choudhury, which gives daily news snippets of a region that is typically ignored by the mainstream media.
In Chhattisgarh less than 1% of the population has internet access and many people are illiterate. So only logical measure was deploying a technology which is already available - mobile phones. CGNet Swara has a voice-based portal, based on Audiowiki software developed by MIT, which is freely accessible via mobile phone and it caters both the citizen journalists and listeners.
The Global Voices Summit convenes bloggers, activists and technologists for public discussions and workshops about the rise of online citizen media movements worldwide. There will also be a private gathering of Global Voices contributors preceding the Summit.
Visit the Summit website to find out more.
Announcing the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Nairobi!
We’re delighted to announce the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2012! Our gathering takes place this year in Nairobi, Kenya on July 2-3, 2012, in partnership with Nairobi’s iHub.
Visit the Summit web site for background information on the goals of the meeting - we’ll be adding registration details very soon.
Mark Zuckerberg spotted in Shanghai!
Several local journalists and netizens spotted him and his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in Shanghai last Tuesday, March 27, and once more, rumors spread like fire through the Internet: Is the king of social media working on Facebook’s reappearance in China?
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The number of languages spoken worldwide vs. the languages of the internet.
