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– 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

– 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

PRESS RELEASE Download the PDF Version of the Press Release In recent news, it has come to light that for a period of four days the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority accidentally blocked millions of websites which suddenly became inaccessible for Internet users in Pakistan. The accidentally blocked sites are popular, non-controversial web pages with high traffic, [...]

Press Release – Don’t Block the Blog Continues to Fight Pakistan’s Internet Blockade at the 1st Year Anniversary Press Release Download LInk – PDF It has been exactly one year since the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority initiated a blanket block on the entire blogspot.com domain. So far there seems no recourse to the ban despite the [...]