The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

Report: Syria to ban comments on websites, increase web censorship

See SyriaComment. It's becoming clearly obvious in every country whose news I follow that blogs and other websites are playing a crucial role as forum for debates and news-reporting where traditional publications face censorship. With the web, however, while governments can make things more difficult for users there are always ways to get around barriers.