Archive for November, 2007

28 11 2007

YouTube suspends account of prominent Egyptian activist

Posted by: MS Staff in Cyber activism, News

A few weeks ago, we posted about Turkey’s incident with YouTube, and how YouTube was giving in to state-sponsored censorship. They did it again. This time the case is with Egypt:

The video-sharing Web site YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the activist said. Read the rest.


Way to go YouTube!

Also relevant: Google reveals Blogger’s IP address:

Google’s settlement and subsequent handing over of a blogger’s IP address without being legally forced to has the potential to set a dangerous precedent for the thousands of bloggers reporting on controversial topics who previously felt protected that their ISP or blogging provider (such as Google) would fight to preserve their anonymity.

Hmm. I wonder if they’re going to pull a Yahoo and start handing out Gmail passwords of controversial activists/authors to the relevant authorities.

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