Andijan: telephone communications in Uzbekistan are being blocked based on key phrasesIt doesn't take a "professional specialist" to conclude that maybe the people in Uzbekistan who Ferghana.Ru editor Daniil Kislov (the link is to some excellent comments of his in an interview with Gazeta.ru, which are translated into English on the Ferghana.Ru site) talks to from Moscow - presumably his correspondents and sources who might be under official surveillance - all have their phones tapped. Or, possibly, he has his phone tapped. Maybe he was trying to get that point across without expressing the idea directly.
IA Ferghana.Ru, Mobil'ny Reporter, 18.05.2005 00:17
Telephone operators in Uzbekistan, both fixed-line city networks and mobile networks, have introduced special settings. This is reported by residents of Andijan and Ferghana, who have experienced unexpected difficulties during telephone conversations. According to them, as soon as either of the parties to the conversation mentions the words "Andijan," "victim," "killed," "SNB," or others, the line goes dead.
Editorial employees of Ferghana.Ru have also encountered such "censorship" while trying to place a call to Namangan. After a ten-minute conversation, a phrase was said which included the word "Andijanis." The conversation immediately broke off, and it was subsequently impossible to reach the other party to the conversation again.
We present these facts for the consideration of professional specialists in the area of telecommunications. We are accepting comments on this subject.
Source: "Mobil'ny reporter" [interesting mobile phone news site with news on Andijan, in Russian - trans.]. Read more about the Mobil'ny Reporter project on News.ferghana.ru [also in Russian - trans.].
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Telephone conversations in Uzbekistan subject to "censorship" - Ferghana.ru
From Ferghana.Ru, translated by me:
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Perhaps they are using such technology, if it is available to them. Very interesting, I guess I didn't realize that was possible, but I guess that in this day and age it's not surprising. That is exactly the kind of "specialist" opinion that Ferghana.Ru was looking for.
My thinking in the initial post was that since Ferghana.Ru is a small organization, they may have run with this based on just a few instances of being cut off, or many instances where their people in Moscow were cut off from talking to their correspondents in Uzbekistan. But if the voice-recognition technology you mention is widely available, then maybe that's what's causing this.
reports from the BBC on the retaking of Korasuv and my analysis here ...
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