Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has included 12 countries on its latest list of ‘Enemies of the Internet’. Since the last report was published on 12 March 2011, Bahrain and Belarus have moved from “under surveillance” to “Enemies”. Libya and Venezuela have been dropped from the list of countries “under surveillance” while India and Kazakhstan have been added to it.
The 2012 list of ‘Enemies’ is: Bahrain, Belarus Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Countries under Surveillance are: Australia, Egypt, Eritrea, France, India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
Details of why each country is included on the list of ‘Enemies’ or ‘Under Surveillance’ are on the RSF website.
on Mar 12th, 2012 at 13:50
All four websites that RSF lists as ‘blocked’ in Belarus are currently accessible in both Minsk and Vitebsk. Many other ‘facts’ presented by RSF are dubious, too.
Unfortunately both EU and US are waging ‘Cold War 2.0′ against Belarus. That’s why much of Western reporting on Belarus follows a rigid narrative and should be taken with a grain of salt.
on Mar 12th, 2012 at 14:39
Kim Andrew Elliot recomends all free countries to keep their shortwave stations intact and in stand-by course of an incomming big war. The way only to transmitt free info is via the sw broadcasting around the world. A Sw TX can be used to RTTY printer info decoded and a RTTY attached to any computer.
No infra structure between transmitter and reciever. Point to point transmission.
on Mar 13th, 2012 at 06:16
Drat… No apostrophes, no inverted commas…
I was going to move into a comment that Radio Australia’s A12 hf schedule has 14 hours per day of DRM scheduled from Shepparton IHFTS - about 10% of the station’s capacity. Two modes, one robust at ~ 11 kb/s, the other running at ~ 23 kb/s. Both from a Continental 418G running ~ 40kW average. Lots of bearings & frequencies.
on Mar 18th, 2012 at 08:24
Google’s Youtube shuts down RT’s main video channel that used to be available on youtube.com/rt and /russiatoday. The channel had over 270,000 subscribers. Other, less popular channels from RT are still available, incl. RTAmerica.
on Mar 18th, 2012 at 08:59
Here’s the official statement from RT:
‘Hello everyone, RT’s YouTube channel has been taken offline by the YT administration today. So far, this appears to be either a glitch or a mistake. We’re in contact with YT and will post updates as soon as we know more. Meanwhile, you can still follow the news here, on Twitter (@RT_com) and our website (RT.com).’
Let’s see how this develops…
on Mar 18th, 2012 at 10:17
Ok, youtube.com/rt is back on. RT is investigating the reasons for this temporary shutdown.