Posted by | March 6, 2012
Thank you Sandvine, Verizon & Cisco, From Pakistan

Our campaign partners, Business Human Rights Resource Centre,  confirmed to us that Sandvine, Verizon and Cisco committed not to apply for Pakistan Government's call for proposal. Business Human Rights Resource...

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Posted by | March 4, 2012
Timeline: Campaign against Internet Censorship in Pakistan

[<a href="http://storify.com/sanasaleem/pakistan-campaign-against-internet-censorship-in-p" target="_blank">View the story "Pakistan:Campaign against Internet Censorship in Pakistan" on Storify</a>] As we continue the campaign against internet censorship, we feel it is crucial to inform  supporters in...

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Posted by | March 2, 2012
Thank You Websense, From Pakistan

Quoted here is an earlier version of the websense statement. We supported and uphold the decision of websense to concentrate on their position and mention 'several organizations' instead of specific...

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Posted by | March 1, 2012
Censorship is big business, it should not be

Authoritarian regimes around the world have used surveillance to regulate and control public spheres. Western surveillance tools have empowered the repression. We need to stop censorship from being big business....

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Posted by | March 1, 2012
Pakistan: Stop The Firewall!

On Wednesday, the 22nd of February, the ICT R&D fund under the Ministry of Information Technology, announced through newspapers and on their website, a request for proposal for a national...

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Posted by | March 1, 2012
The debate: What is free internet? Who decides what can be filtered?

Efforts have been made by governments around the world, both authoritarian and democratic, to shut down Web sites, silence bloggers, filter out certain words or censor negative information.In order to highlight the...

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Posted by | February 27, 2012
Brief History of Companies Profiting from Censorship

Background: 'Firms Aided Libyan Spies', Wall Street Journal: August 30, 2011, article here 'Spy Companies & Their Authoritarian Customers, Part 1: FinFisher And Amesys', Electronic Frontier Foundation: February 16, 2012,...

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Posted by | February 27, 2012
Pakistan Anti-Censorship Campaign – Get the CEO’s to commit

We, at Bolo Bhi, wrote to the CEOs of 8 companies last week asking them to publicly commit not to apply for this license. They wrote to: John Chambers,, CEO,...

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Posted by | February 25, 2012
Civil Society Against Blanket Ban of The Internet in Pakistan: Stop the Firewall

For immediate release: Civil Society Against Blanket Ban of The Internet in Pakistan: Stop the Firewall This is in pursuance of our press release and letter issued on the 22nd...

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Posted by | February 24, 2012
Call for Transparency on Proposal

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sana Saleem CEO- Bolo Bhi Email: sana@bolobhi.org http://bolobhi.org Civil Society Demand Transparency From IT Ministry on Proposal for URL filtering and Blocking Press Release On Wednesday,...

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