Uganda Blazes Trail: Blocks Twitter, Facebook

Uganda Blazes Trail: Blocks Twitter, Facebook
In a blog post on the OpenNet Initiative blog, Rebekah Heacock notes that "most of sub-Saharan Africa has historically been free of technical filtering." No more. Uganda, at the insistence of its national police commissioner, has sent its three largest ISPs a memo requesting they begin blocking what they called "Tweeter" (presumably Twitter) and Facebook, in order to "eliminate the connection ...

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