Sentence examples for blocking of internet from inspiring English sources

A law came into force in February allowing the blocking of internet sites on the order of prosecutors without a court decision.

It argues in its court filings that the F.C.C. has documented only four examples, over six years, of purported blocking of Internet content by service providers.

The OpenNet Initiative estimates that about a third of Internet users live in countries that engage in "substantive" or "pervasive" blocking of Internet content.

Though the negative reporting on Mr. Bakiyev dovetailed with a Russian agenda, to counter Russian influence would have required the United States to publicly support the closing of newspapers and blocking of Internet news sites.

Despite severe restrictions on when citizens could leave their homes and the blocking of Internet traffic on cellphones, protesters and stone-pelting youth clashed with security forces in different parts of the Kashmir Valley in the week after Mr. Afzal's hanging, resulting in three deaths and several injuries.

It added that the level of filtering and blocking of internet sites by local authorities - to ensure pupils stay safe while online - hindered class work "unnecessarily" in the majority of schools.

To sidestep the government's blocking of the Internet and curbing of cellphone access, for example, some of the more active antigovernment protesters distribute flash drives and CDs with videos of the fighting to friends in other towns and to journalists.

Recent Chinese cyberattacks on American companies as well as more widespread censorship, such as Iran's blocking of Gmail have thrust Internet regulation to the center stage of foreign policy.

After the country's second nuclear test, on May 25th, North Korean officials were reportedly told to back Kim Jong Un.The 20th anniversary of the massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square protests in China prompted tight security measures around the square itself, and the blocking of a number of internet sites.

The uncertainty and sense of isolation have been only magnified by the blocking of access to the Internet and shutdown of text messaging and international phone service that has severed communications in Kashgar and the entire region.

Another camp believes that obstacles to free speech on the Internet go far beyond Internet filtering or blocking of Web sites — which is the only problem that circumvention tools solve.