Tajikistan authorities intend to toughen up censorship in the Internet by banning a number of popular sites and social networks. It is probably that their number will reach 131. This was reported by the Tajikistan service “ Radio Svoboda” (“The Freedom Radio”) with a reference to Assomidians Atoeva, the Head of the Internet Service Providers Association.
According to Mr. Attoev's words companies-dealers of the Internet services have already got certain lists of sites that will be blocked. Among them are Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter, mail.ru and also tjknews.tj, topvideo.tj, politicforum.ru, youtubemusic and tojnews.tj.
It is fail to get any official comments from the Tajikistan Communication Service.
On the last Friday Russian Mass Media have reported that the companies-providers in Tajikistan had been told to block the user’s access to 131 sites of social implication.
Earlier by the authority's order the Facebook activity was limited, and its blocking continued from November 26 till December 7. This step caused a sharp criticism from the USA, EU and The International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX).
Experts connects this pressure on the Mass Media in Tajikistan and straightening the censorship with the forthcoming presidential elections in Autumn, because of which the criticism in the Internet against the main persons of the country became stronger.
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According to Mr. Attoev's words companies-dealers of the Internet services have already got certain lists of sites that will be blocked. Among them are Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter, mail.ru and also tjknews.tj, topvideo.tj, politicforum.ru, youtubemusic and tojnews.tj.
It is fail to get any official comments from the Tajikistan Communication Service.
On the last Friday Russian Mass Media have reported that the companies-providers in Tajikistan had been told to block the user’s access to 131 sites of social implication.
Earlier by the authority's order the Facebook activity was limited, and its blocking continued from November 26 till December 7. This step caused a sharp criticism from the USA, EU and The International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX).
Experts connects this pressure on the Mass Media in Tajikistan and straightening the censorship with the forthcoming presidential elections in Autumn, because of which the criticism in the Internet against the main persons of the country became stronger.
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