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ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 8th, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 08/Jul/2011; tagged in Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, China, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Search result removal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Australian Filtering Goes Live, "Trivial" to Bypass
Last week, our friends over at Herdict reported on the proposed ISP-level censorship in Australia. The plan, released by Telstra and Optus (two major ISPs), aims to protect Australian citizens by blocking child pornography and child exploitation sites...
- Posted on 06/Jul/2011; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Circumvention, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Afghanistan, Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Copyright, Cuba, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, India, Indonesia, IP blocking, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latin America, Lebanon, Legislation, Mexico, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Nigeria, ONI, Pakistan, Political filtering, Rwanda, Social filtering, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Take-down, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, United States/Canada, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
ONI Blog: Australian Prime Minister Backs Web Filtering
The AFP recently reported that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has begun actively pushing to filter Australia’s Internet content. According to news sources, the filter would block websites that contain rape, bestiality, and child sex abuse. Included in the plan...
- Posted on 28/Oct/2010; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Filtering tech and software, Legislation, Surveillance
ONI Blog: Would Censoring the Internet Prevent Cyber-Bullying?
Playing out in the Internet tabloids this week is the story of Jessi Slaughter, an eleven-year-old girl whose YouTube rants have resulted in death threats and unsavory rumors in a classic case of cyber-bullying.
In Australia, where a proposal to filter the...
- Posted on 20/Jul/2010; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Cybercrime and security, Defamation, Filtering tech and software, Hate speech, Obscenity, Social filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Is Blocking RapeLay the Solution?
Controversy is brewing over a Japanese video game called RapeLay which, according to Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, allows users to "earn points for acts of sexual violence, including following girls on commuter trains, raping virgins and their mothers, and then forcing...
- Posted on 02/Apr/2010; tagged in Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, Search result removal, Social filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: More than half a billion Internet users are being filtered worldwide
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has been monitoring Internet filtering around the world since 2002. Currently, more than 40 countries are filtering the Internet to varying degrees, while a number of others, including Australia, Iraq, and Spain, are considering enacting filtering policies....
- Posted on 19/Jan/2010; tagged in Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Europe, Germany, Human rights, IP blocking, Iraq, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North Korea, Overblocking, Political filtering, Proxy blocking, Russia, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, United Kingdom
ONI Blog: Australian Activists Fight Filter on Twitter
As celebrated today on iTWire, Australian and international activists are fighting Australia's impending filtering policy on Twitter. Users opposing the filter are using the hashtag #nocleanfeed to disseminate information, and to fight against the filter. One such user,...
- Posted on 15/Dec/2009; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Filtering tech and software, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Errors in Australia's Filtering Regime
Based partially on a top-secret blacklist of websites, Australia’s program of Internet filtration is still in full force. Government censorship recently resurfaced in the media when Australia’s Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, admitted that certain images were added to the blacklist in...
- Posted on 19/Apr/2009; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Filtering tech and software, ONI, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Australian Goverment Releases Paper Detailing Filtering Pilot
Ban.This.URL, a blog documenting and examining online censorship in Australia, reports that Australia's The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released a paper detailing the technical specifications of Australia's proposed Internet filtering plan.
In the paper...
- Posted on 17/Dec/2008; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Obscenity, Overblocking, Social filtering
