Iran is reported to have sealed off the office of the popular news Web site baztab.com. The last item on the Web site carried the headline: "The wish of the presidential office was realised and Baztab's offices were sealed off", Reuters reported....

It has been widely reported that on the evening of 16 September 2007 Google and its related services (Gmail, et cetera) were blocked in Iran. The popular blog server blogfa was also blocked. Iran unblocked access to these services...

The fundamentalist Web site Baztab.com which is critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been closed down, reports Robert Tait of The Guardian. The banning of the conservative Web site was justified by the first open use of regulations adopted on 27...

Blogger and Global Voices contributor Sami Ben Gharbia chats with Iranian Hamed Saber about his innovative method for bypassing the ban on Flickr.com -- a popular photo-archive website site blocked in Iran and the UAE. ...

Journalist and activist Omid Memarian discusses the new registration requirement for websites and weblogs sourced in Iran -- the latest maneuver by the hardliner government to tighten its grip on the Internet. ...

Senior officials in Iran's judiciary have ordered Internet service providers to block access to several popular websites, reports Robert Tait of The Guardian. The edict follows the recent restriction of Internet speeds in the country to 128kbs, which...

Little more than a month ago, the technical head of the Iranian company charged with filtering Internet content in Iran declared that Iran was blocking more than 10 million websites. Not to be outdone, Iranian government officials have countered by...

Richard Rogers' Govcom.org foundation has been doing cutting edge research on online networks for years, producing visually rich outputs that show connections among major nodes, typically using their issue crawler tool. We at the OpenNet Initiative have entered into a...

On top of all the excitement at WSIS, there have been some recent articles examining freedom of information on the Net in the Arab world and beyond. The UAE has recently legalized VOIP, the technology that enables Internet telephony. Arab...

Iran's Internet filtering system is one of the worlds most substantial censorship regimes. Drawing from technical interrogation, extensive legal and political analysis, and interviews with Iranians, ONI’s analysis finds that Iran’s Internet filtering system is one of the world’s most substantial censorship...