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Saudi Arabia criticized for blocking Human Rights group website
A human rights group has criticized Saudi Arabia for blocking its website inside the conservative Persian Gulf Arab kingdom.
The [Persian] Gulf Center for Human Rights posted a message on its website (http://gc4hr.org) on Tuesday deploring the move “as a form of repression that is part of intimidation patterns that are being used persistently in the Kingdom these days.”
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Wikipedia Anti-SOPA and PIPA Blackout Looms
Wikipedia going on strike
The world’s most popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is going on strike on Wednesday. The “knowledge blackout” is aimed at protecting the Internet – and the website’s very existence – from online censorship.
The Wikipedia community and the Wikimedia foundation decided on a global blackout of the English version of the website for 24 hours starting at 05:00...