Ethiopia clamps down on Skype

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Campaigners accept warned of beginning efforts by the Ethiopian government to catch bottomward on assertive types of internet use in the country.Reporters Without Borders says that the authorities accept installed a arrangement to block admission to the Tor arrangement - a "hidden" band of the internet, acclimated to acquiesce bearding online communications.Users already face up to 15 years in bastille if they use Skype or agnate internet alarm services.Addis Ababa has not provided a comment.The Ethiopian government is aggravating to advance every agency of advice exchange," Ambroise Pierre from the Reporters Without Borders Africa account told BBC News.There's already a actual austere ascendancy over accounting press, and aftermost year several journalists were arrested, and now the government is arrest communications over the internet.More and added bodies in Ethiopia are axis to fresh technologies, and some are alike able to bypass censorship, which explains why the government is aggravating to use able methods to ascendancy internet communications.