52 websites are being blocked, not 21, including Medium, the noted dispenser of corporate platitudes and millennial drivel: The Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) claims that an unnamed “sovereign authority” has ordered blocked 52 websites and not 21 has been previously reported. Al Bedaya news website, which AFTE doesn’t list, has also reportedly been blocked, its Chief Editor Khaled El Balshy tells AMAY. Access to 21 news websites, including Al Jazeera, Mada Masr, and Huffington Post, was restricted last month amid allegations they had published fake news and / or were hosting pro-terror content. Oddly enough, blogging platform Medium (a favourite of millennials and corporate “thought leaders” alike) is included on the list (and does not open for us this morning).

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