Censorship in ByNet
On February 1, Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed a decree imposing censorship on the Internet. The decree takes effect on July 1. Reporters without Borders, an international human rights organization, states Belarus will be put on the list of Enemies of the Internet, joining such countries as China, North Korea, Burma, and Iran. Will Belarusian Internet users be able to defend their right to receive and give free information?
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12.01.2010
Authorities banned discussing decree on Internet censorship
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9:50, — Politics
The Belarusian Language Society (BLS) named after Francysk Skaryna received a warning of the Ministry of Justice saying discussing draft decrees of Lukashenka disaccord with the organization’s charter.
30.12.2009
Dictator says Internet is a “dump”, but is going to regulate it
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16:07, — Politics
Lukashenka in fact confirmed his plans on Internet regulation in Belarus at a press conference on December 30.
28.12.2009
Media: Lukashenka to turn screws on Internet by New Year’s Eve
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8:54, — Politics
The Belarusian authorities hurry to impose censorship in the Internet as early as possible ahead of the forthcoming elections.
24.12.2009
How to circumvent site blocking?
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18:04, — Politics
One should understand that Internet is on distributed principle, and there is always a possibility to circumvent of the website at the level of your provider.
Dictator vs Internet: who will win?
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8:40, — Politics
The Belarusian authorities want to declare war against the Internet. Are we ready to defend ourselves?
23.12.2009
Council of Ministers discussing Lukashenka’s decree on Internet control
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9:03, — Politics
A final variant of the Decree on Measures for Revising Use of the National Segment of the World Wide Web may be signed on December 24.
21.12.2009
Charter’97 website faces second cyber attack over past week
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13:41, — Politics
The website charter97.org met a DDoS attack at 1:30 p.m. today. The technical support service managed to minimize the consequences; the website is available for users, but the attack is still going on.
16.12.2009
Will anyt bucreacrat be able to close a website?
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12:02, — Politics
Such are the provisions of the draft decree of Alyaksandr Lukashenka on Internet space, the European Radio for Belarus notes.
15.12.2009
Zisser: “Pyatkevich promised not to licence Internet in the nearest time”
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13:30, — Politics
One of the founders of the Internet portal TUT.by expressed his concern over preparation of the draft decree restricting activity of Belarusian news websites.
14.12.2009
Decree on Internet limitations prepared in Belarus (Text of the document)
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18:05, — Politics
It is planned that the Council of Ministers together with special services and providers is to control work of web-sites.
