IKEA removed from the directory for women in Saudi Arabia

IKEA hypermarket

First staged in Ikea censorship of Pussy Riot, and now under attack are all women! On October 1 Swedish furniture company removed from their catalog pictures of women in Saudi Arabia that caused the rebellions of the two female ministers in Stockholm.

Swedish edition free newspaper Metro was the first who wrote about this, saying that Saudi directory contains exactly the same pictures as in other countries, except for the conspicuous absence of women. A company representative confirmed this information in an interview with AFP.

"We deal with this problem and having some talks with Saudi our franchise", - says Ulrika Englesson Sandeman , a spokesman for Inter Ikea Systems, which owns the world-famous brand. In particular, it noted that in entering the new market the company is constantly striving to find a balance between their own values, and local laws and culture, which may not be consistent. The incident caused a real shock in Sweden, which attaches great importance to gender equality.

Middle Ages
"It is impossible to remove and erase women from the real world. If Saudi Arabia it is not allowed for women to be seen and heard, does not allowed for them to work, women are deprived of the half of the intellectual capital", - said in a statement the Minister for Trade Ewa Björling (Ewa Björling). "This medieval" - outraged at Twitter Minister for EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson (Birgitta Ohlsson).

Ikea has opened three stores in Saudi Arabia, which for the past five years showed "double-digit" growth. There are strict rules for the separation of men and women. The fair sex have only the most limited rights. For example, they are not allowed to drive in and out of the house without wearing the veil.

September 25, Ikea has spawned a lot of talks after the removing of one photo from the Russian-language version of its website. It showed four men in colored hoods worn by participants Pussy Riot. In an effort to cater to each and every company only burned his wings.



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China blocks access to foreign social networks

Some of them use to bypass filters virtual private networks

A recent report, according to which China is experiencing a steady growth in the number of Internet users who have access to "Facebook" and "Twitter" in Beijing is criticized.

Experts note that despite the growth of Internet literacy of its population, only a small proportion of the population of China has the tools needed to overcome the government's Internet censorship.

A GlobalWebIndex(London-based research Internet company) says that about 8 percent of Chinese Internet users have "Twitter", and 8 percent have "Facebook" - despite the fact that access to both social networks in this country is blocked.

But Michael Anti - a well known Chinese blogger, a columnist in the magazine and a defender of freedom of the Internet, said that the report greatly overestimates the prevalence of social media in the Western China.

Access to the Internet in China in the last decade has grown considerably. But the government retains control over servers located in the country, and prohibits content that is considered harmful.

Access to social networks with servers located abroad - such as "Twitter" and "Facebook" - can be obtained only by bypassing the filter system.

Virtual Private Network (VPN), for example, is a technology that provides a secure Internet communication. Companies outside China provide services based on it, which allow people to surf the Internet anonymously through spaces located overseas - thus avoiding blocking by the Chinese authorities.

Despite the fact that many people use these services to gain access to the information that the Chinese censors have blocked, more and more Chinese people bypass Internet filters for commercial purposes.

Research company International Data Corporation recently predicted China to double-digit growth in demand for products that provide security on the Internet - and almost 40 percent of this increase due to the VPN and firewall technologies.

Most companies of safety technology on the Internet, do not provide detailed information of the number of people using technology VPN - or how Chinese consumers use their products.

However, according to a study conducted in 2010, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (USA), in countries where there is a set of internet filters, less than 3 percent of its users use the tools to overcome them.

John Russell, editor of the Internet-technologies online magazine Next Web, recognizes the existence of a tendency to spread security tools on the Internet, including virtual private networks.

However, he notes that the average Chinese Internet users still do not feel the need to use foreign social networks.

"In the absence of services such as" Twitter "or" Facebook ", local networks have gained strength and became very popular" - he said.

The "Sino-Veybo", the most popular Chinese counterpart, "Twitter", 300 million registered users. He became one of the most powerful platforms for posting comments, videos and pictures on the Internet.

Censorship on home sites in China, such as "Veybo" rather widespread - and often done by the companies that want to avoid the wrath of the authorities.

Russell says that this type of self-censorship brings more harm to Chinese Internet users.
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The Ministry of Communications has developed a mechanism for blocking sites with illegal content

Key proposals of Internet companies and operators were not included.

Ministry of Communications published a draft government decree regulating mechanism of blocking sites containing illegal content for distribution. According to the law to protect children from harmful information from November 1, these sites will be included in a single register, which will lead Roskomnadzor. On Thursday, the project was discussed at a meeting of a working group consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Communications, the Federation Council, Roskomnadzor and the representatives of Internet companies and operators as reported in the ministry.

The officials Project caused a sharp criticism of market participants. "The representatives of the industry were asked to consider the document during a day, that, in our opinion, does not correspond either with the complexity of the problem, nor with its importance for the development of the Internet in Russia", - as it is said in a statement of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC, combines More than 90 Internet companies).

According to the project the black list will include domain names, URLs, and network of illegal resources. Meanwhile, it is naerly a month when market participants say the blocking of the IP-address will cause suffer of honest resources that are on the same IP-address with the illegal site.

IP blocking is supported by operatores. Otherwise they will have to invest heavily in the installation of their network across Russia. They are designed to manage the traffic in the networks - for example, they can be used in many ways for different tariff services. Russian mobile operators will have many benefites from this. DPI also can for example, to block access to a certain type of content is not the whole Internet site or a specific page, located at a specific address (URL). But such systems are not cheap. And in order to use them to filter access to sites all over Russia, operators must implement DPI not only on mobile, but on fixed networks. MTS evaluated before the introduction of such a system on their networks at $ 51 million.

Proposed blacklisting and subsequent blocking of web pages, which contained illegal information, enables courts or competent authorities to decide on the entry in the register without specifying the location of the information on the resource. This, says BGN creates risks for censorship, banning citation, and significantly restricts the rights of the site owner to appeal the decision.

The Ministry of Communications has fulfilled his the promise - a part of the proposals RAEC is taken into account, but it doesn’t mean to write a law dictated by the association, parries Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Alexei Volin. To fulfill the wish of RAEC and block instead of a web page specific information posted on it, it is very difficult organization, he explains: much easier to block IP-address, the more that has the names of some resources (for example, with the word porno) clearly informed about their content.
Telecommunications Ministry will prepare a final version of the document on Monday and it is hardly anything in the text will be changed significantly, he said, "Vedomosti" a source in the Ministry of Communications. After that, the document will go for approval to the other departments.



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Anonymous users: how to protect themselves from online surveillance?

The Belarusian authorities are systematically tracked down regime disgruntled through the Internet . Often it is enough to know the IP-address of the computer from network of which goes "objectionable" content. What to do?

Several opposition moderators communities in social networks were detained in Minsk on August 30. The experience of other countries in which the opponents of the regime are being repressed, shows that online activists hide their real names for reasons of security. In this case, the alias is usually enough - after evaluating the IP-address, the security forces can easily find the owner of the account. For those who want to avoid such trouble, we offer some practical advice.

There are many ways to hide or anonymize IP-address of your computer. The most appropriate option depends on three factors: special technical qualification, installing a software on your computer and speed connection. In addition, it is important to realize the risks. For example, in some countries, the use of Web proxy is prohibited by law.

New email address
Do not use your primary email address to register on social networking or blogging platforms. First, you probably have "inherited" them on the web. For example, by making a purchase at the online store, you will surely have indicated not only in your email address and real name, home or work address. Second, if you use a local mail host, the law enforcement agencies will not be difficult to find out from your ISP's IP-address.

But it is extremely difficult to get this information from a foreign hosting provider. International organization "Reporters without Borders" in its memo "How to blog anonymously" specifically recommends hushmail.com and gmail.com. Both mail service by default encrypt traffic, so keep track of what and who sends the user is almost impossible.

Anonymous Proxy Server
If you go to the Web from your home computer, it's best to do it through an anonymous proxy. List of free proxy servers can be found, for example, at: publicproxyservers.com . Another way - to drive in the search box Google the phrase "proxy server high anonymity".

Most of the proposed sites are English-speaking, but it is easily to navigate. It is nough to enter in the search box the URL-address of the desired resource. As result you’ll get access to the resource, but your Internet provider that does not "see" it.

But he sees that you have opened a website offering services anonymization. Another minus is a slow connection, because your request goes first to the server located abroad, and then back to you.

Anonymous network connection
If you have the ability and expertise to install the software on your computer, we recommend you to download the so-called multi-layered, or onion router - TOR (The Onion Router). First, you will no longer depend on the availability of Web resources that offer anonymization. Second, TOR provides the highest degree of confidentiality.

When a user sends a request from your computer, it goes through a chain of three randomly selected proxy servers, and before sending the data packet is encrypted with three keys. Each of the three nodes stands for the upper shell and passed on.

TOR program can be downloaded at: torproject.org

If the address is blocked, then the web can easily find a copy of this resource. To do this, type in a search string "onion routing".

TOR also offers a "mobile" version - Xero Bank Browser, you can install on USB-drive and use, for example, in an Internet cafe. It's enough to run the file xB-Browser.exe.

TOR automatically updates a chain of proxy servers every ten minutes, so typing long messages or blog posts better in a text editor, not in a browser window.

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