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ONI Blog: Anonymous Threatens to Attack Toronto's Internet in Support of Occupy Demonstrators
Hacker group Anonymous recently threatened to "remove" Toronto from the Internet when police officials there attempted to interrupt protests taking place in the city. Part of the global Occupy movement, the Occupy Toronto demonstrations have lasted for about a month. However,...
- Posted on 15/Nov/2011; tagged in Canada, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Canada lauds UAE ISP that pervasively censors political, religious, and gay and lesbian information, using Canadian software
The OpenNet Initiative has been documenting Internet censorship worldwide since 2002, including the growing use of commercial filtering products by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in non-democratic regimes.
The ONI recently published a report, authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian York,...
- Posted on 01/Jul/2011; tagged in Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Social filtering, United Arab Emirates, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 17th, 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 17/Jun/2011; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, Canada, Circumvention, Cybercrime and security, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Geolocational Filtering, Iran, Malaysia, Qatar, Threats to the Open Net, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States/Canada
Report: West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011
March 2011
Authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian C. York.
To view this bulletin as a PDF, click here.
Executive Summary
The OpenNet Initiative has documented network filtering of the Internet by national governments in over forty countries worldwide. Countries use this network filtering...
- Posted on 28/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, Canada, Filtering tech and software, Internet tools filtering, Kuwait, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Oman, Political filtering, Qatar, Social filtering, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: WikiLeaks: Reactions from the ONI Team
With WikiLeaks dominating the media over the past two weeks, a number of the OpenNet Initiative's principals and staffers have commented publicly on the implications of the leaks on the Internet.
ONI co-principal investigator and director of the Citizen Lab Ron Deibert took...
- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in Canada, Conflict and security filtering, Intermediary Censorship, ONI, Political filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Facebook: What is Private?
Users of Facebook beware: In a precedent-setting decision by a Toronto judge, a man injured in a car accident has been ordered to turn over information from his Facebook page which is off-limits to the public.
The lawyers of the lawsuit's defendant, Janice...
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
ONI Blog: Telus Blocks Consumer Access to Labour Union Web Site and Filters an Additional 766 Unrelated Sites
On July 25, 2005, Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) Telus blocked subscribers' access to a Web site set up by an employee labor union intended to publicize the union's views about its dispute with Telus. In addition, the OpenNet Initiative's (ONI) research...
Report: Telus Blocks Consumer Access to Labour Union Web Site and Filters an Additional 766 Unrelated Sites
OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 010
August 2, 2005
Last Updated: August 2, 2005
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Observations
On July 25, 2005, Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) Telus blocked subscribers' access to a Web site set up by an employee labor union intended...
