On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Sana Saleem <[email protected]> ----- > > From: Sana Saleem <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:31:39 +0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [liberationtech] Pakistan's Firewall: Need your help and support > > Hi all, > > There's been significant media coverage of the impending internet > censorship plans by Pakistan's Government. The anti-censorship campaign has > been able to garner support from national and international organizations. > The positive news is that, we were able to push the government to extend > the tender closing date, for URL filtering and blocking system, from 1st of > March to the 16th of March. Our partners in the campaign, Business Human > Rights Resource Centre, were able to forward our petition and letter to > company CEO's and we received commitments form: > > -Websense > - Cisco > -Verizon > -Sandvine > > They have committed not to bid for the URL filtering system. However, > Mcafee,ZTE , Huawei, Bluecoat has not responded. We are now getting very > close to the tender closing date and have entered a crucial phase in the > campaign. We believe at this point it would be most beneficial to keep > building pressure. > > - Getting businesses with investments in Pakistan to speak up and write to > the Ministry of IT > - Getting media to focus on various aspects of the issues, including how > this could effectively turn online spaces as tools for surveillance, how > this would hurt the economy, academic paralysis and halt innovation. > > We have put together a Press Kit, it is comprehensive and has basic info > that most of you might already be aware of, to inform journalists within > and outside of Pakistan about the situation and it's repercussions. Please > feel free to share, amongst your contacts: > > http://bolobhi.org/press-release-public-statements/press-kit/national-url-filtering-blocking-system/ > > > Here is a timeline for the campaign so far: > > http://bolobhi.org/timeline-campaign-against-internet-censorship-in-pakistan/ > > > Thank you and I would really appreciate your suggestions, feedback and > help, > Best, > Sana > > -- > Chief Operating Officer > Bolo Bhi > Privacy-Advocacy-Research > http://bolobhi.org > > _______________________________________________ > liberationtech mailing list > [email protected] > > Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click > above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily > digest?" > > You will need the user name and password you receive from the list > moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. > > Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > >
Eugen, have to admit have been watching yours and Mike's post on freedombox mailing list. BTW I suspect this might be bit ironic, if i am not mistaken India has even more "stuff" in place, and possibly largest chunck of folks in silklist reside in India. @Sunil Abraham do you have any comments to add on filtering and monitoring in India.. regards Anish
