Kazakh PM starts blog, censors comments
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov last month launched his personal blog and ordered his ministers to do likewise. However, the PM seems to have some issues with a common blog feature— comments.
Since the launch, his blog has received thousands of comments, many of them critical of the government. So far so good.
But the spirit of openness appears to have ended, as messages from ordinary citizens are being censored.
Readers in the northern city of Stepnogorsk contacted RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service to say that they had left comments on the blog, which appeared but then were seemingly removed. They had been complaining about problems with their drinking water.
A law limiting free expression on the internet is currently being discussed in Kazakhstan’s Parliament.
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