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What's new at the OpenNet Initiative?

All three of the OpenNet Initiative's edited volumes—Access Denied, Access Controlled, and Access Contested—are now available online.

The OpenNet Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of our summarized global Internet filtering data for download under a Creative Commons license.


Features

  • Sina Weibo Updates User Contract with More Content Restrictions
    China's Twitter-like microblogging service updated their user contract last week, placing more restrictions on what users can and cannot post online.
  • Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threatens Web Freedom, Critics Say
    The US intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement recently leaked. As officials from nine different countries meet to negotiate the terms of the agreement, Internet freedom defenders are calling the TPP the cousin to ACTA.
  • Threats to the Open Net: May 12, 2012
    Tor releases OONI-Probe and finds two blocked sites in Palestine; Sina Weibo releases specific guidelines for publishing content; the browser game Wolfenstein 3D is banned in Germany for its Nazi references; the Court of the Hague orders the Pirate Party to stop providing reverse proxies to the Pirate Bay.

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Global Internet Filtering

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Main Filtering Map
ONI's main filtering map shows the states and regions where each type of filtering ONI studies takes place.

Social Media Map
Our social media map serves as an easy visual guide to the states and regions where filtering of five major social media sites occurs.

YouTube Censored
For a detailed look at when and where YouTube has been filtered since 2006, check out YouTube Censored: A Recent History, ONI's interactive global timeline.