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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.

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.’

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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.

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.

How Nigerian Bloggers and Tweeps #SavedOke - a Young Diabetic

The wandering hands of a controversial Bolivian mayor caught on camera, have angered netizens.

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India has demanded that 20 major Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter present plans to filter “anti-religious,” or “anti-social” material from the content available to Indian citizens. Cartoon by Bryant Arnold, CartoonADay.com. Used under a Creative Commons 2.5 license (BY-NC)

India has demanded that 20 major Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter present plans to filter “anti-religious,” or “anti-social” material from the content available to Indian citizens.

Cartoon by Bryant Arnold, CartoonADay.com. Used under a Creative Commons 2.5 license (BY-NC)

A poster in the middle of the anti-ACTA rally in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo by Ruslan Trad (CC-by-SA 3.0)

A poster in the middle of the anti-ACTA rally in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Photo by Ruslan Trad (CC-by-SA 3.0)

Cuban Bloggers on SOPA, Culture and the Democratization of Knowledge

In Consent of the Networked, Global Voices co-founder and internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it’s time for us to demand that our rights and freedoms are respected and protected before they’re sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. Find out more and buy online

In Consent of the Networked, Global Voices co-founder and internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it’s time for us to demand that our rights and freedoms are respected and protected before they’re sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away.

Find out more and buy online

I signed the IMF memorandum without having read it
Greek netizens have criticized and mocked Minister Chrysochoidis’ statement that he never read the IMF memorandum signed by the Greek government, although he had voted for it. Veroniki Krikoni reports.