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Article: Syria tightens controls on Internet users across country
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- March 25, 2008
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Syrian officials boast a state-of-the art press center with fast Internet access and wireless technology for press covering the upcoming Arab summit. But the country is tightening its own citizens' use of the Internet _ jailing writers and bloggers and blocking sites deemed harmful to state security.
The controls tightened considerably in recent days when authorities began requiring Internet cafe owners to keep a detailed log of their customers, apparently to make it easier to track down offenders.
The new directive, conveyed orally by security agents, requires Internet cafe owners to take down their clients' full name, ID or passport number, the number of the computer and ...