[liberationtech] NEWS: This Week in Online Tyranny

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  This Week in Online Tyranny
Written by Curt
Hopkins<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/author/curt-hopkins.php>,
ReadWriteWeb / April 1, 2010 7:00 PM

 [image: openphotonet_prison cells2.jpg]Have you become the Mayor of Buttita
Plaza Pawn on Foursquare? Or the Archbishop of Myung Dong Tofu Cabin, or
the...Deputy Sheriff of the Twilight Bowl? Yay for you! Meanwhile, bloggers
in Morocco and Vietnam have become the Governor of Prison and the Water
Commissioner of the Interrogation Room.

Feel bad? I'm not going to tell you you shouldn't. All this technology we
use and write about and enthuse on has higher stakes than we think. Here are
some of them.

*Moroccan blogger Abdellatif Ouaiss arrested.* Ouaiss was arrested Sunday
for "an article published in his English-language blog in which he
criticized the ten-year rule of King Mohammed VI" according to Rihab
Alhoria<http://rihab-alhoria.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-moroccan-blogger-in-jai.html>
.

*Vietnamese human rights lawyer and blogger Le Thi Cong Nhan rearrested.* In
the middle of March, only three days after Le Thi Cong Nhan was released
from prison after a three year sentence, she was arrested again. "Police
took her to a Hanoi police station for allegedly violating the terms of the
supplementary sentence of three years of house arrest that she is now
supposed to serve," according to From The
Old<http://fromtheold.com/vietnam-human-rights-lawyer-and-blogger-arrested-just-three-days-after-completing-jail-term-20100310>,
which has more information.

*Germany blocks content country-wide, imitates China and Iran.* Germany,
according to theOpenNetInitiative<http://opennet.net/blog/2010/03/german-president-k%C3%B6hler-signed-internet-filter-law>,
has instituted "block lists." What starts with porn ends with you shutting
the hell up. (What was that thing about the lessons of history? Ah,
whatever. Let's dance! *Ganz toll!*)

*Google gets hacked in China*. Intermittent hacking and other mysterious
interference slows, and in some places, blocks Google. Google stammered in
response. More from
ReadWriteWeb<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_google_blocked_in_china.php>
.

*Yahoo gets hacked. In China. *Over a dozen Yahoo email accounts belonging
to foreign journalists, activists and analysts in China were hacked.
Effectively, the email accounts were shut down. More from
ReadWriteWeb<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/china_yahoo_accounts_hacked.php>
.

*Still. *Iranian blogger Hessam
Firouzi<http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/04/hessam-firouzis-condition-at-evin/>'s
still in prison. Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer <http://www.freekareem.org/> is
still in prison. Omid Reza Mir Sayafi <http://www.march18.org/> (murdered
March 18, 2009) is still dead.
[image: freekareem]
*Top photo by Adrian Van Leen
End photo by FreeKareem.org*

*The author was a co-founder of the March 18 Movement.*
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