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Saudi Gazette
March 16, 2018
Censorship and media oppression were used widely by strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who for a decade in power ordered local internet ... His successor President Maithripala Sirisena was elected in 2015 promising an end to draconian government restrictions, but some websites critical of theÃâà...
The Independent
March 7, 2018
As Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman landed in London for the start of a three-day state visit, Saudi newspapers, radio and television channels carried almost as much coverage of the trip as UK outlets. Several news organisations made mention of the billboards and posters bearing theÃâà...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
Goldman Sachs's economists wrote that while the potential tariff's on imported steel and aluminum “could alleviate political pressure on the White House to pursue other trade restrictions in the near-term,” it would increase “the probability of trade-restrictive outcomes to other pending issues.” On Nafta:.
New York Times
March 1, 2018
Compare that with March 2002, when President Bush introduced his trade restrictions: The Fed was cutting interest rates, a policy stance that can help .... Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has invested more than $200 million in Penske Media, the owner of Rolling Stone and Variety, according to anÃâà...
The Quint (blog)
February 20, 2018
Expatriates working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will now be quite worrisome with current and future job prospects at stake. Starting from September 2018, expatriates in Saudi Arabia will be facing new restrictions in various jobs and activities. The announcement in Arabic, posted on the Ministry ofÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 18, 2018
When Saudi Radio launched its official broadcast on October 1, 1949, it was able to play a substantial role spreading cultural awareness and information to the public, as well as being an important medium to deliver news. And through radio, Saudi women were able to get involved in the broadcastingÃâà...
ZDNet
February 13, 2018
You've heard the advice before: Whether you're in the office or on the road, a VPN is one of the best ways to protect yourself on the internet. But how effective are VPNs? What's the best one for you? What are the downsides? Our executive guide aims to answer all your VPN-related questions -- including aÃâà...
The News Lens International
February 9, 2018
Yet what's surprising about the chokehold Beijing is placing on the internet – “plugging the last holes in its 'Great Firewall' internet censorship apparatus,” ... the internet, to current Party Secretary Xi Jinping's repeated insistence on internet “sovereignty” (the right of nations to control and censor the internetÃâà...
The Interpreter
February 7, 2018
Yet what's surprising about the chokehold Beijing is placing on the internet – “plugging the last holes in its 'Great Firewall' internet censorship apparatus”, ... the internet, to current Party Secretary Xi Jinping's repeated insistence on internet “sovereignty” (the right of nations to control and censor the internetÃâà...
ValueWalk
February 6, 2018
The proliferation of the internet, as well as the hyper-connectivity of today's society, often leads to the feeling that the world is getting smaller, that we're ... online censorship around the world that visualizes some of the key findings of the study, including the most censored/least censored countries studied,Ãâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 2, 2018
Journalists face restrictions in what they can cover and where they can travel across a country of 80 million people that's nearly two-and-a-half times the size of Texas. The internet helped collapse that distance. During Iran's 2009 protests surrounding the disputed re-election of hard-line President MahmoudÃâà...
ZDNet
November 28, 2017
"In the past two decades, many other nations followed in China's steps and enforced restrictions in the online world," Tanase told ZDNet. "When a large enough and ... "A decade ago, our main concern was governments implementing filtering mechanisms to censor the internet. Today that remains aÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
September 20, 2017
The conservative kingdom has previously banned internet phone calls - known as Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) - restricting the ability of Saudis and expatriate ... However, Saudi Arabia has extensive internet censorship - blocking pornographic websites but also many other sites that are critical of theÃâà...
IFEX
December 31, 1999
The implications of this decision, if upheld on appeal, would set a new precedent for internet censorship in Tunisia. If the final judgment is in the plaintiffs' favor, it will obligate the agency to censor the two games. Even though this might be technically impossible in the case of Blue Whale, it would constituteÃâà...
YubaNet
December 31, 1999
March 12, 2018 – To mark this year's World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, celebrated on March 12, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling ... After the original site was blocked in Saudi Arabia and Oman in 2017, a new one was created that is currently accessible in Oman but not in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Gazette
December 31, 1999
This was mainly due to the increase in internet censorship and the ban on virtual private networks (VPNs) in the past 12 months, as well as the worsening pollution in a number of Chinese locations included in the survey.” Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur features at a lowly 126th in ECA's rankings for AsianÃâà...
The Media Line
December 31, 1999
While Netflix in 2016 signed an Internet Service Provider (ISP) partnership with Israel, the entertainment company is promoting the OSN deal as a first-of-its-kind in the Middle East. ... This, in turn, raises questions about censorship, in particular if and how restrictions will be applied to Netflix's content. “NetflixÃâà...
