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Yemen’s Policy on Blogs

Filed under: Media, Yemen — by Jane Novak at 8:30 am on Sunday, June 15, 2008

My blog is blocked inside Yemen. The entire Matoob blogging platform was blocked in March. (Matoob is the biggest Arabic blogging service.) Yemen Portal, a news aggregator, is blocked, as are many Yemeni news and opinion websites. However, Anwar al-Awlaki’s blog is open, where he explains the rightfulness of murdering people who are insulting. Awlaki, an American citizen was spiritual advisor to the 9/11 highjackers and is blogging from Yemen. Nifty.

Freedom of speech, yr doin it rong!

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Annabelle, Switzerland She re-checks the information, grooving all these pieces together into an overall picture puzzle that results in an extremely precise view of the mysterious interior of Yemen.

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