ZDNet is reporting that Twitter has been banned in Dubai following the arrest and
subsequent release of the UC Berkeley student who sent a message “Arrested” to his friends using Twitter and got help from his friends and the U.S. embassy.
People accessing Twitter from Dubai are getting a message that the site has been […]

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As anticipated in my previous post about potential YouTube ban in Indonesia, the Indonesian ISPs have blocked access to YouTube.
Wait, it is not only YouTube this time.  There are other services which have become victims of Internet censorship by the Indonesian government.  The list includes MetaCafe, MySpace, RapidShare and Multiply as well.  This was confirmed […]

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Reuters is reporting that Indonesia has asked the ISPs to block access to
YouTube for hosting the anti-Quaran film.
Indonesia’s Communications and Information Minister, Mohammad Nuh, said:
If the film is not removed within two days, we will block YouTube in cooperation with Internet service providers.
Cahyana Ahmadjayadi, the director general for information technology has told Reuters,
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It seems the world is competing over who blocks YouTube more often.  On Sunday, China blocked YouTube because of the Tibet protest videos being aired on the website.  The government of China wants to protect the citizens from watching what happened during the protest in Tibet against Chinese rule.
Apart from being the top video sharing […]

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