Internet Censorship in Islamic countries - for MsWesterner

[Sanitarium]

Continued from this thread because was completely off topic.

[fire-snake]

I am in one of those banned country above, I logged several times without proxy it was still accessible (up to now).

[Chewchy]

[Sanitarium]

[yeezevee]

Well that is good subject to know dear Sanitarium & it doesn't need to be specific to MsWesterner, does it??., every member should know these problems. There are NUMBER OF ISSUES here.. 1). Countries banning websites due to Sexual explicit content 2). Countries banning websites due to Voilent content such as Jihadi beheadings.. 3). Not countries but Governments banning the websites due to the political opposition with-in or from outside of the country. 4). Countires banning the religious discussions/for those who question/propogate other religious views.. Such As Islamic countries.., 5). banning the website because people are criticizing the religions due to their BUILT IN STUPIDITY.. etc..

So, each issue is different and one need to go in detail before these so-called rulers put a ban on the freedom of information that must avialable freely on web

Any way it is a good thread and please continue to educate the reader..

wirh best regards
yeezevee

[Sanitarium]

Greetings yeezevee,

Actually I was addressing a specific claim that MsWesterner was making and then repeated. I chose this title because I made this topic seperate from another thread and I wanted to draw her attention to it. I have already addressed your concerns in my first post here.

Apparently it did not work as she has not yet replied!

Thanks muchly
-Sani
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[yeezevee]

[Sanitarium]

Thanks yeezevee I didn't know you had a sense of humour!!


Muslim: The Quran is the truth! Allah is God and Muhammad was his messenger!!

Sceptic: What is your evidence for that?

Muslim: .........



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[yeezevee]

[Sanitarium]

Okay yeezevee, you're just here to derail the thread, so I will wait for MsWesterner to come and rebut my rebuttal.

After that you can take this thread halfway to Calcutta if you like.

Thanks muchly

-Sani
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[MsWesterner]

Sani.....you can play with words all you wish in an attempt to "score brownie points" and get your pound of flesh.......FFI is banned in some muslim countries and it exposes islam and these countries do not want their people reading it!!! What does this indicate.....that it is insecure, or it wouldnt ban these things!!!

and before I post the following....I have asked you politely to cease this personal nonsense, and note that you want me banned!!! (and so you continue with it and dont seem willing to give it up........why be so vitriolic?)

Muslim governments/leaders do block sites because of insecurity......they know that people viewing human rights and freedoms will create unrest!!! So why do you have such a problem with my saying this?

please note the word "repression" in the title plus the "human rights" in the text.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Internet Increasingly Censored
The first comprehensive global survey of Internet filtering shows that online repression is on the rise worldwide.

By Clark Boyd

Access denied: The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) report singled out China as one of the biggest blockers of online content. According to ONI, China blocks a wide range of political, cultural, religious, and human-rights websites.
Credit: Open Net Initiative
A report released today by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) concludes that the scale, the scope, and the sophistication of state-based Internet filtering have all increased dramatically in recent years. The survey highlights the tools and techniques used by countries to keep their citizens from viewing certain kinds of online material.

ONI is a collaboration among four leading universities: Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto. The group's testing was carried out during 2006 and early 2007. ONI used a combination of tools that can remotely test filtering conditions within given countries. The group also relied heavily on local researchers who evaluated Internet conditions from inside certain countries. Some countries, such as Cuba and North Korea, were deemed too dangerous for either remote or in-country testing. But of the 41 different countries tested by ONI, 25 were found to block or filter online content.

"Over the course of five years, we've gone from just a few places doing state-based technical filtering, like China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, to more than two dozen," says John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. "As Internet censorship and surveillance grow, there's reason to worry about the implications of these trends for human rights, political activism, and economic development around the world."

But it's not just the sheer number of countries doing content filtering that has grown; it's also the breadth and depth of material being blocked.

The report discusses three primary rationales that nations have for blocking Internet content. The first is political, which leads to, for example, the blocking of opposition-group websites. The second rationale is social: some countries block pornography and sites dealing with gambling or sexuality issues. The third rationale is national security, which can lead some nations to block online material produced by, for example, extremist groups.

According to the report, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia remain the top blockers. Each nation filters not just pornography, but also a wide range of political, human-rights, religious, and cultural sites deemed subversive by those countries' governments.
Other countries are more selective in what they let citizens see or not see. Syria and Tunisia, for example, filter a great deal of political content, while Burma and Pakistan target websites that pertain to national-security issues.

One interesting case is that of heavily wired South Korea, where ONI found Internet filtering limited to one topic: North Korea. "The South Koreans block several North Korean websites," says Nart Villeneuve, director of technical research at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. "They even tamper with the system so that when you try to access one of those North Korean sites, the URL resolves to a South Korean police page telling you, 'What you're trying to access is illegal, and we know your IP [Internet protocol] address.'" (An IP address could be used to locate the computer where the search is conducted, with the ultimate goal of identifying the individual involved.)



I note that yeezevee tried to explain it to you also......but that didnt suffice for you.

of course sites that are banned are incompatible with islamic beliefs because, as I said, many do expose "what is taught and the behaviours" as much of FFI does.

How many times must I ask that you cease this continuing personal discreditation......I see many many people on this forum whom write all sorts of things, yet dont see you "waiting to jump on them" or hoping to catch them out.

[yeezevee]

Ooops.. something is cooking here again., I hope the food smells better than the previous dish., ..da..da...da.

[Sally]

[yeezevee]

[Sanitarium]