Another international publication contacted me to elicit my views regarding the Ministry of Information’s administrative order requiring all websites to register with them, and what actions are being taken by webmasters, if any, to counteract that order. He began by asking me if any blogger has actually registered with them so far, what you read …
أكد الوكيل المساعد للمطبوعات والنشر ÙÂيوزارة الإعلام عبدالله يتيم أن“بدء تسجيل المواقع الالكترونية ÙÂيإدارة المطبوعات والنشر ÙÂيوزارة الإعلام منذ الثانيمنمايو/ أيار الجاري، يأتيضمنالتزامات الوزارة بترسيخ وإطلاق ØÂرية الصØÂاÙÂØ© والطباعة والنشر باعتبارها منالØÂريات التيكÙÂلها الدستور ÙÂيمادتيه الـ “23” Ùˆ”24″ مندونمساس بالمصلØÂØ© العليا للوطن…
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That’s the press , publications and censorship department of the Ministry of (dis)Information coming out of the screen telling an internet surfer: “go to porn sites as much as you like, but politics? FORBIDDEN!”
Al-Wefaq won’t be playing come October 2006. They’re just not interested, and judging by how impotent our parliament, its bylaws and the constitution is and the impossibility of changing it from within, I don’t blame them. Yes, I realise that this is a change in my position. I was angered by their first boycott, fully …