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Lebanon Threatening Voices!

nightS — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:24:47 +0000

Only five days after the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, the Lebanese government decided to keep up with its neighbors in the Arab World. Its first attempt was with the Lebanese blogger Khodor Salameh, aka jou3an -hungry in Arabic- because of a post he wrote about the president. They demanded him to change his tone, close his blog or just stick to poetry or he might be prosecuted!

I’m speechless and furious!!!

Lebanon, Welcome to Threatened Voices!*

*Threatened Voices is a project of Global Voices to defend the free online speech, it’s a:

A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them.

This Blog is Against Cyber Censorship

nightS — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:11:03 +0000

Today (March 12), “Reporters Without Borders” are celebrating the World Day Against Cyber Censorship.

Maybe we cannot relate with the subject in Lebanon since this virtual side of this messed up country is still free (so far) but it doesn’t mean we’re off the hook. If they’re not doing anything about what’s being said in our blogesphere, it doesn’t mean they don’t want to, they just don’t know how…yet!

I mean we’ve seen some of their “intentions” when they tried to shut down the TV show “LOL” because of some “inappropriate” jokes!

To see what we might be facing in the future, nothing is more clear and frightening than the list of the bloggers at Threatned Voices who have been threatened, arrested or killed because of their words online!

What anti-censorship means to me? Freedom! Our most basic right as human beings! We need to be free to express our feelings, thoughts and opinions with no fear of anyone! Censorship by other parties usually ends up with self-censorship, you’ll end up imprisoning yourself if they don’t do it themselves! Which is more dangerous to me..

How companies and governments should act in regard to this censorship? Not by only allowing others to talk freely online, but by making sure they have the means to do so. In Lebanon, they can start by offering a decent internet and telecommunications infrastructure..

Note: You can also read more about the “Web2.0 vs. Control 2.0” at RSF

New RTL-This Tutorial

nightS — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:44:29 +0000

So I managed to write a simple tutorial that consists of three parts about how to RTL a simple webpage:

RTLing a Hello World WebPage: http://rtl-this.com/tutorial/rtling-hello-world-webpage
Getting to Know the HTML/CSS: http://rtl-this.com/tutorial/rtling-hello-world-webpage-getting-know-htmlcss
RTLing: http://rtl-this.com/tutorial/rtling-hello-world-webpage-rtling

I hope it’s useful to someone

I received links and feedback from several readers about the RTL of the Web. I didn’t expect to get that help that was very kind, sweet and simply amazing. Thank you so much I’ll publish them all soon.

One more thing: if you’re a web designer and have the time and will to design a (free) blog template so it can be flipped in a tutorial and be available to be downloaded let me know so we can work work on something together.

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RTL This..finally!

nightS — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:00:04 +0000

I finally managed to do it There is an actual blog called RTL This now and guess what..I used Drupal this time

I added some explanation posts(okay just 1 or 2 ) and the tutorials are coming soon.

Let me know what you think…I really hope someone would find it useful..