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Don’t Block the Blog – DBTB.org

We have moved all Don’t Block the Blog issues to DBTB.org

October 8th 2005, Remembered

October 8th 2005, changed Pakistan forever, at precisely 08:50:38 a massive earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan over 80,000 lives perished in a blink of an eye, thousands were displaced ultimately resulting in millions of dollars in damage. At this tragic moment it was really heartening to see that every Pakistani around the world [...]

DBTB Condemns Censorship of WordPress.com by Turkey

– ALERT ! – DON’T BLOCK THE BLOG CONDEMNS CENSORSHIP OF WORDPRESS.COM BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT Download the PDF Version of the Press Release Don’t Block the Blog would like to express its dissatisfaction at the recent development in Turkey where the Turkish Government has been served with a court order to enforce a blanket [...]

Don’t Block the Blog – Supports Turkish Bloggers

Taking stride from our Don’t Block the Blog campaign that we launched for Pakistan back in march 2006. We would like to show our support for the ongoing problems faced by Turkish bloggers. A Pakistani blogger, Kyla Pasha from Islamabad has been kind enough to whip us a few campaign buttons so that the Don’t [...]

Turkey Blocks WordPress.com Hosted Blogs

Cross Posted at Teeth Maestro: A few months back in March there was a huge circus surrounding the decision by the Turkish government to block the entire YouTube website as it hosted a video which according to the official government statement was insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Unsurprisingly the same, modern [...]

I Love Pakistan, Do You?

Cross Posted at Teeth Maestro: Barely four days left for the 60th anniversary of our beloved nation, but it seems that many citizens are just not motivated enough to celebrate this milestone. It appears that the people have been disheartened by the continuous political twists and turns that have besieged our country since the past [...]

Pakistan Government attempts to Control the Internet – Press Release

– ALERT ! – PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT ISSUES FURTHER ORDERS TO CONTROL THE INTERNET IN PAKISTAN Download the PDF Press Release Don’t Block the Blog regrets to announce that the President of Pakistan, General Pervaiz Musharraf, has just signed into immediate effect measures which increase governmental control over the electronic media in Pakistan and which will [...]

Statment of Support for Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa

The Government of Pakistan (read Pakistan Army) has been trying its best to suppress the release of the book titled Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy which was written by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa. Since Friday, the proposed release date the military has pulled all stops to prevent the release of this all-exposing book going to [...]

Blogger block workaround: Post blogs via Google Docs

This tutorial has been written and cross posted at Dont Block the Blog website courtesy Ovais Khan In February 2006, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) -the Internet regulators in Pakistan asked the bandwidth providers and ISPs to block various web sites because they carried a variety of blasphemous material (See actual notification here). Two of these [...]

Lalmasjid.org Blocked

I am sure many have heard and read about the Burqa clad women armed with sticks who were protesting in Islamabad. The set of images has been displayed across millions of websites showing yet another extremist element in Pakistan. To make matters even worse the government has gone to the extent of literally unplugging the [...]