<nettime> Yugoslav Academic Network blocks access to Radio B292 web site

[Vladislav Bjelic <wlad@xs4all.nl>]

ANEM press release

Yugoslav Academic Network blocks access to Radio B292 web site

BELGRADE, November 2, 1999 -- The School of Electrical Engineering in
Belgrade, which administers the entire Yugoslav Academic Network, has
blocked access to the Netherlands server which hosts the FreeB92 web site. 

The web site, in addition to various media-related, cultural and political
content, provides news from Radio B2 92. 

In this way, academics and students of universities throughout Yugoslavia,
as well as other users of the Academic Provider, have once more been
prevented from accessing Radio B292's news. 

In a previous attempt, the Academic Network blocked access to the servers
of the then free Radio B92 in December 1998. 

The Association of Independent Electronic Media in Yugoslavia views both
cases as the most direct form of Internet censorship and deplores the fact
that this censorship has been promoted and executed by the Academic
Network which, in normal circumstances should be in the front line of
defence of the free flow of information. 

The University of Belgrade, in other words those who have managed it since
the introduction of the Universities Act, has paid much more attention to
control than freedom in the matter of information. ANEM maintains that
this measure should be viewed as one of the enormous arsenal of repressive
measures introduced by the Universities Act. 

ANEM demands that the managers of the Academic Network and the university
management to which it is subject remove any form of censorship and allow
all users of the Academic Network, primarily students, free access to all
Internet domains. 

ANEM has also informed all users of the Academic Network that access to
the Free B92 site will be made available via mirror sites to pre-empt
further censorship of the Free B92 web site. 


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