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After having refused to pass the Internet filter law for the last eight months, German President Köhler agreed to do so by signing it on 17 February 2010. The law is expected to be officially published in the middle of March 2010.
Köhler's...
The German government declared its intention to not continue with the Internet filtering law which was passed in 2009 to block child pornography online.
Since the former government, made up of a coalition of Germany´s two biggest parties, the social democratic SPD and...
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has been monitoring Internet filtering around the world since 2002. Currently, more that 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 -
First it was the UK, then Australia: Over the past year, ONI has witnessed consideration of filtering schemes by several Western countries, as well as the leaking of "secret block lists" for a few others (such as Norway and...
ONI Blog: German Police Shut Down Wikileaks Domain
According to The Inquirer, German police have raided the offices of WikiLeaks.de, a website that publishes leaks of government documents, transferring control of the domain to German authorities and shutting down the website.
This move was triggered by WikiLeaks’ publication...
ONI Blog: Internet Censorship in Germany
According to German news publication Der Spiegel, German officials are calling for ISP censorship of offensive cites in order to quell the spread of child pornography, CNET and The Inquisitr report.
With implementation slated for March, Germany’s proposed...
Within a few days German member of parliament Lutz Heilmann (The Left – Die Linke) became famous in a way he probably had not expected. On Thursday, November 13, he successfully closed down www.wikipedia.de, the website of Wikipedia Germany which forwards...
ONI Blog: YouTube, Scientology and the DMCA
You've all seen the anti-Scientology protests; a group known as Anonymous, wearing Guy Fawkes, protest outside various churches of Scientology, or most recently here in Cambridge, outside of an exhibit aimed at teaching people about the religion. Many such protests...
- Posted on 09/Sep/2008; tagged in Australia, Canada, Europe, Germany, Take-down, United States of America, United States/Canada -
