Caught in the Net: Bahrain

From Foreign Policy (Issue May/June 2005) [Cached Version - With Images / Text Only ] :

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Bahrain trumpets itself as one of the Middle East’s most wired countries. But some Bahrainis are fuming after their government recently shut down two popular Web sites whose discussion forums contained criticism of the current regime. On one forum, www.bahrainonline.org, which received about 200,000 daily hits, users had made allegations of state corruption. The government’s response? “There are no limits to freedom,” said King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, “but this freedom should be based on patriotism.”

FP invites readers to suggest incidents in which a government, corporation, or any organization is involved in a unique technological abuse at caughtinthenet@CarnegieEndowment.org.