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Al Jazeera looks at how Chinese citizens are using the internet to fight corruption.
As technologies have developed, so too has the ability to monitor, filter, censor and block them. DPI "enables Internet Service Providers to intercept virtually all of their customers' Internet activity..."
Iran now has a total of 33 journalists and cyber-dissidents in its jails, while journalists who could not be located at their homes have been summoned by telephone by Tehran prosecutor general Said Mortazavi.
| By Oliver Luft, Guardian Reporters Without Borders attacks arrest of journalists on Mir-Hossein Mousavi's newspaper, Kalemeh Sabz. |
| By Laura Flanders, GritTV Joining Laura Flanders to dicuss the week in media are Danny Schechter, Allison Kilkenny, Andrew Golis. |
| By International Business Times Political leaders in the West are increasingly concerned and stepping up their rhetoric on Iran's brutal crackdown. |
As technologies have developed, so too has the ability to monitor, filter, censor and block them. DPI "enables Internet Service Providers to intercept virtually all of their customers' Internet activity..."
| By Air America Ron Kuby talks to Greg Mitchell, editor of "Editor and Publisher" magazine about his decision to not report on New York Times' reporter David Rohde's kidnapping. |
| By CNN A Canadian working for Newsweek magazine in the Iranian capital was "detained without charge" by Iranian authorities Sunday. |
| By Brian Murphy, AP The media clampdown also has been a test on other fronts: challenging the ability of authorities to control information in the Internet age and requiring editors and journalists to quickly decide what to pursue from the avalanche of rumors, tips and observations on social networking sites. |
| By Jeff Stein, CQ Politics The New York Times was prepared to pay Taliban kidnappers a $5 million ransom to free its reporter David S. Rohde, who escaped Friday after seven months of captivity. |
Iran now has a total of 33 journalists and cyber-dissidents in its jails, while journalists who could not be located at their homes have been summoned by telephone by Tehran prosecutor general Said Mortazavi.
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