BlackBerry to allow Indian government limited access
Smartphone message monitoring may be necessary for governments, but it should not turn to mere snooping, says Salil Tripathi
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Kuwait: Ban pornographic sites on BlackBerry
Kuwait has asked BlackBerry’s Canadian maker RIM to block pornographic sites though they will not suspend the messenger services like their Gulf neighbours.
RIM have agreed to block 3,000 porn sites and have promised to do so by the end of this year.
No Sex and the City for Abu Dhabi
Sex and the City 2 has been banned from the city in which the film is set, Abu Dhabi. A spokesperson for the National Media Council said on 19 May it had banned the film from the country because the “theme of the film does not fit with our cultural values”. The United Arab Emirates previously denied them permission to film in the country, and they also banned the first Sex in the City in 2008.
Human rights in changing times
In a speech to Amnesty International’s national conference John Kampfner talks self-censorship, Nick Griffin and why free speech means fighting for the rights of people whose views you find obnoxious
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