Posted by | March 14, 2012
Thank you Access Now, Let’s Keep Fighting!

This week we launched a campaign with Access Now, building pressure on international companies to not respond to national URL filtering proposal. In the past few weeks, thanks to the...

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Posted by | March 13, 2012
Access now calls for an end to Pakistan’s firewall: 20 million silenced

Access, global movement for digital freedom, have launched a campaign to pressure international companies not to bid for Pakistan's pending firewall. Our partners, in the campaign, Business Human Rights Resource...

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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 | 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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