Internet

Angry Twitter Birds Topple Arab Dictator in a TV Ad [VIDEO]

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2011

France 24 TV ad is promoting Twitter’s power to dislodge dictators in a dramatized manner. The two-minute ad shows an animated Mubarak, Ben Ali and Gadaffi-like under attack by righteously blue angry birds representing freedom.

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Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet? by Maidhc Ó Cathail

by Maidhc Ó Cathail June 30, 2010

By Maidhc Ó Cathail* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine American freedoms than Joseph Lieberman. Since 9/11, the Independent senator from Connecticut has introduced a raft of legislation in the name of the “global war on terror” which has steadily eroded constitutional [...]

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Israel deploys cyber team to spread positive spin

by Jonathan Cook July 22, 2009

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to [...]

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Israel Goes on the Virtual Offensive

by Haitham Sabbah April 2, 2007

By Gregory Levey The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals. For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio. The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel’s new MySpace page, however, says she isn’t sure if the [...]

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MAHMOOD’S BLOG TO BE BLOCKED

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2006

Update Nov 2nd: Mahmood’s Blog is back! It’s official, Mahmood’s Blog (http://mahmood.tv) will be blocked effective immediately, by the orders of the Bahraini Ministry of Information. Together with 6 other web sites (listed below), the official memo was delivered to all the ISP’s in Bahrain this afternoon. Mahmood is a prominent Bahraini/Arab blogger. His blog [...]

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Unblock Eve’s Blog

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2006

This is really stupid: Saudi ISP have blocked SaudiEve’s blog, and it is said that other blogs will follow. At this point, it is unclear why exactly SaudiEve has been targeted, as she is neither the most outspoken nor the most political of the Saudi bloggers, as she mostly blogs about personal issues and not [...]

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Internet use in Bahrain

by Haitham Sabbah May 16, 2006

Received an email requesting this: Thanks to an amazing website I recently happened across, I have created a survey on internet trends in Bahrain. I am interested in documenting internet access and uses in Bahrain. I am asking that this survey only be taken by people actually living in Bahrain. Your participation in this study [...]

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Who is searching for sex?

by Haitham Sabbah May 12, 2006

Here is another toy from Google. It is still sitting at Googles Labs, and they call it Google Trends. Fark recently featured the discovery under “obvious” tag, so I went to check it out, and guess what, I came out… blushing :-D Here is why. Go here and search for the word “sex” (don’t worry, [...]

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Arab internet woes

by Haitham Sabbah March 17, 2006

Some sad facts: Middle Eastern audiences are literally disconnected from the rest of the world and the rest of their countrymen. Less than four per cent of people in the Arab world are internet users, according to ITU data. The penetration rate is just 3.7% – in a region with an 8.59% penetration in landline [...]

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The World Summit on the Information Society

by Haitham Sabbah November 15, 2005

Dispatch from Tunis: The Civil Society Summit That Wasnï¿½t Today as a global summit on the Internet got underway, the Tunisian government did all it could to smother a local summit on the same topic. One might think that a world conference on improving global Internet access represents a prime chance for the government to [...]

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Yezzi – Fock: Tunisian online protest (now blocked)

by Haitham Sabbah October 5, 2005

Via: Global Voices Online Rebecca MacKinnon As Tunisia prepares to host the controversial World Summit on the Information Society in November, Tunisian opposition activist Neila Charchour Hachicha informs Global Voices that the online freedom of speech protest site launched by Tunisians on Monday, www.yezzi.org has already been blocked by the Tunisian authorities. The online protest, [...]

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Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber-Dissidents

by Haitham Sabbah September 22, 2005

Today, Reporters Without Borders published a Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian), in which experts and bloggers from all over the world advise Internet users, especially those in repressive countries, how to set up their own blogs and get them known, while preserving their personal anonymity. Why is it [...]

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Blue Brain

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2005

An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level has been launched by IBM and a Swiss university team. Called the “Blue Brain” project, it will involve building a custom-made supercomputer based on IBM’s Blue Gene design. The hope is that the virtual brain will [...]

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Ayatollah Fatwa Online!

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2005

Want to have breast implants but worried they may not be so pleasing to God? Wondering if the marketing campaign devised to boost your business is spiritually sound? If you are a Shia looking for guidance, what you may find useful is your very own online ayatollah – a sort of electronic agony aunt with [...]

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Why the World Is Flat

by Haitham Sabbah May 6, 2005

This is Globalization 3.0. In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to [...]

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