Media News - Monday, December 10, 2007
Syria: More than 100 websites blocked in growing wave of online censorship
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned that the number of websites to
which access is blocked in Syria has been growing steadily for the past
month. In all, nearly 110 websites are known to be blocked, including
the video-sharing site YouTube, the blog platform Blogspot and the email
service Hotmail, are now inaccessible. The latest site to be blocked was
Amazon.com on 30 November. When contacted by RSF, the Syria Computer
Society, one of the country’s main ISPs, said the Internet was not
censored that these problems originated in the computers of the
individual Internet users. The authorities have been blocking access to
the social networking service Facebook on Syria’s Internet servers since
19 November without giving any explanation. The Syrian human rights
commission’s site is also blocked, as is another independent human
rights monitoring site. Elaph.com, a news website that is very popular
in the Arab world (with around 1.5 million visits a day), is also
inaccessible.
(Reporters Without Borders)
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