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Link: Mobile trouble: Musharraf at receiving end of Pak mobile squad

Another Link: Anti-Musharraf campaign goes high-tech

Musharraf has of late ratified stringent measures to curtail media freedom. He did not realise, however, that dissent would find an outlet in Pakistan’s growing cellphone subscriber base. A massive campaign against Musharraf has been launched recently by the general public on cellphones.

Link: Yemen government restricts SMS news services.

The government has been restricting some SMS news services and blocking certain media websites, said journalists and opposition parties. “SMS news service via mobile networks are facing a legal challenge, and I call on the government to make laws to issue licenses to the companies who want to offer this service,” said Chairman of Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, Nasr Taha Mustafa. Mustafa asked the Ministry of Information to settle the problem of the restricted SMS services with al-Nass Mobile and Without Chains Mobile, in accordance with the journalism law.

Link: TaliyaNews :. MMS controlling equals eavesdropping – MP

This refers to a story about Iranian Government filtering MMS messages.

Ramezan-Ali Sadeqzadeh arguing that MMS and SMS messages are private interactions between two parties, added in an interview with IRNA, “There is no legal justification for such practices.”

The first deputy of Parliament’s Mines & Industries Commission added, “Just as it is illegal to eavesdrop the conversation of two people in accordance with the IRI Constitution in any way, save for doing so based on the verdict of a court of justice in order to prove a crime, or to prevent a threat against national security, and similar cases, controlling the MMS and SMS contents, too, need to be based on such a verdict, or after the filing of a complaint by the receiver of the unwanted texts, or pictures, or films.”