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DonateCraig Labowitz at Arbor has been sifting through the evidence of how countries in the Middle East have been blocking and throttling the Internet in the last week. His analysis indicates that while both Bahrain and Yemen had periods of slowed or impaired access, only Libya seems to have taken the drastic step of shutting off the Net entirely.
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- Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube and then re-asserted it within the same week.
- Digital technology is helping get news out of North Korea. Small digital cameras and tiny SD memory cards make it easier to smuggle images out.
- In China, meanwhile, Amazon's Kindle 3G e-reader is reportedly being used to get the news in. Users are able to bypass the "Great Firewall."
- José Alejandro Godoy has the dubious honor of being Peru's first blogger to be sentenced under the country's criminal defamation laws.
- Facebook hopes to provide SSL access (i.e. secure, encrypted access) in the coming months. CPJ will continue to push other sites to make their services more spy- and censor-proof.
- Will future censorship be tailored to the individual, just as Internet ads are now?
- In September, Burmese exiled media were brought down with denial-of-service attacks. Is the entire domestic Burmese Internet now suffering the same fate?
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