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China<\/strong>
\nAfter multiple employees of Hong Kong-based company Phoenix Satellite Television accused<\/a> the company’s former Washington, DC bureau chief of sexual harassment last week, nearly all mention of the scandal was scrubbed from the Chinese Internet. Foreign Policy<\/em> reports<\/a> that videos about the story have been blocked, while articles on the case have been taken down from China’s state-run news agency. FP notes that the current CEO of Phoenix’s US subsidiary is the son of China’s former Vice Premier.<\/p>\n

Pakistan<\/strong>
\nPakistan’s Minister of State for Information Technology said last week that the country is working to develop software that will block “objectionable content”<\/a> worldwide. Once all such content is blocked, the minister stated, the country could theoretically lift its ban on YouTube. The video-sharing site has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe<\/strong>
\nZimbabwe held presidential elections on July 31; the resulting re-election of President Robert Mugabe is hotly contested<\/a>. During and after the elections, DDoS attacks took down several human rights and media websites<\/a>. In addition, Kubatana.net, which publishes human rights and civic information online and via email and SMS, was blocked from sending bulk text messages by an alleged government order.<\/p>\n

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