Where are the censors?

Students, reporters and TV series fanatics alike are struggling under the block.

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tarekshalaby I'll prepare a blog post tutorial to show how to bypass it

Fahmi also tweeted a resource on how to circumvent the block

Blocking access to such sites which are rich in information causes damage to Syrians. First of all, they are a slap against the free promotion of Syria and secondly, they deny Syrians access to services which are available for people around the world. I hope those responsible for this policy would reconsider their censorship policies.

But also don't forget, any unveiling is also veiling.

This is not a good sign as it shows the comeback of fear and censorship.

Chinese bloggers have been using various homonyms for the New York Times to get by the censors.

In order to defeat terrorism through blocks, you d have to block the internet.

Days after the blocking, the government cracks down on social media.

And Tarek Shalaby has the solution ready for such a move

A DNS block, followed by a patchy IPS block, then who knows what.

Debating, recognizing, denouncing whatever . anything but suppressing!

Tunisian bloggers have formed a Facebook group entitled Censorship tarnishes my country's reputation.

The shutdown has significantly curtailed the information flow through those channels.

The censorship machine not only allows but boosts online discussions, making netizens suspicious.

Following the decision, there were calls from the public asking the king to intervene, but the ban remained.

But the blocking was restored some months later, after telecom regulator ANRT upheld the ban in a controversial decision, ruling that VOIP services do not have licenses to operate in Morocco.

From Turkey, Engin Onder describes how Turkish Twitter users spread the word on how to circumvent the block

Alireza Shirazi says that recently several music sites were filtered in Iran.The blogger adds it shows that filtering goes beyond political or porn sites.He asks what will be the next step of filtering?

The problem in Syria is that we don't know who orders the blocking of sites.

Digiactive writes that about 100 Iranian bloggers signed a declaration that condemns filtering and call for freedom of speech.

Turkey has blocked Twitter as well as Google's public DNS service, used to circumvent the block.

During the shutdown, only people using VPNs and the State House of Uganda were able to circumvent the blackout.

In many instances, the football matched unearthed national rivalries.

Microplates can be stored at low temperatures for long periods, may be heated to increase the rate of solvent evaporation from their wells and can even be heat sealed with foil or clear film.

And Turkish researcher Zeynep Tufekci is all smiles that Turkish Twitter users are making their voices heard despite the ban ) despite because of RT mashable Whoa 1.2 million tweets sent in Turkey, despite ban http t.co P7MIhx6Vhr pic.twitter.com OKzxHFcALT Zeynep Tufekci ( zeynep) March 21, 2014

Thus far, there have been no official statements issued by Yemen Net or the Ministries of Communication and Information regarding these acts of censorship.

With the wholesale censorship of Wikipedia, Turkey has become only the second known country in the world, after China, to block Wikipedia.

One such solution came from IPFS (the Inter Planetary File System) when the platform put all of Turkish Wikipedia on their decentralized peer to peer hosting network, which does not rely on the domain name system, and thus is very difficult to fully censor. The content is thus accessible regardless of the government ban.

Despite the block, it appears that a few remaining Egyptians are still tweeting in hopes of getting news out to the world.

Al Saqaf noted that the kind of blocking that authorities had used appeared suspiciously similar to what users faced some years ago, between 2005 and 2011.

The blocking decision is the latest in a series of repressive measures taken by Omani authorities as part of the country's broader crackdown on independent media.

Today s emerging intifada demonstrates the profound danger implied by this approach. Fueling Israelis fear and resentment of Palestinians does not only undermine the chances of a political solution it also exacerbates Palestinians frustration and anger with Israelis.

However, changing the address of the site, which I have discovered lately, has made it easier for me to break the ban imposed on my blog than writing actual posts.

Tunisians online users, especially bloggers, refused this arbitrary blocking and created videos, pictures and blogged against this censorship

Despite censorship, speculation regarding his whereabouts spreads on China s micro blogs.

After repeated calls from various people to Vodafone s customer service, they were told Skype is being blocked since 13th March based on an order from Telecom Egypt.

These and other leading platforms have terms of use that restrict several types of content including nudity, hate speech, and violence.

In light of the blackout, Global Voices will attempt to report from phone calls and other communications over the course of the next few days.

Tor has gained 3000 new users, all of whom are using bridges outside of the regular Tor connections, since the block at the end of July.

But if it does, I'm sure that in the near future volunteers will set up proxy servers that allow Telegram users to bypass the block.

Read our earlier interview with Omer Alvie, the co founder of (DBTB), about the blanket ban and the Pakistani campaign to support online freedom of speech.

Global Voices Advocacy keeps track of online censorship worldwide in daily posts, and maintains a map of web 2.0 censorship.