Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Amidst riots in the UK, calls to censor social media
The suspicion that social networks such as Twitter and Facebook as well as BlackBerry Messenger helped incite riots that gripped England earlier this week has led politicians to demand their shutdown.
Prime Minister David Cameron directly blamed social media for the riots. In...
- Posted on 12/Aug/2011; tagged in Anonymity, Arrests and legal action, Conflict and security filtering, Europe, Surveillance, United Kingdom
ONI Blog: Syria goes mostly offline as protests intensify
Renesys is reporting that as of 3:35 UTC (6:35 local time) on Friday, June 3, the majority of Syrian networks were disconnected from the global Internet. A graph shows the dramatic drop in reachable networks:
Renesys documented...
- Posted on 03/Jun/2011; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Syria
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: Egypt’s Internet Blackout: Extreme Example of Just-in-time Blocking
In a nearly unprecedented move, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered all Internet service providers to shut off connectivity. As of 1:00 am Cairo time on Friday, January 28 — a day of planned demonstrations — reports began to circulate...
- Posted on 28/Jan/2011; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI
ONI Blog: Tunisian Government Websites Attacked Via DDoS
The repercussions of Tunisia’s strict online censorship reached an apex in the Arab country this week as multiple DDoS attacks continue to target the government. Hackers known collectively as the Anonymous group took down at least eight government websites beginning...
- Posted on 05/Jan/2011; tagged in Anonymity, Conflict and security filtering, DNS tampering, Political filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, Take-down, Tunisia
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: United Arab Emirates Arrests Activists, Bans BlackBerry Services
On July 29th, Reporters Sans Frontiers reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested one BlackBerry user, detained another, and are pursuing five activists. The activists were planning a protest via BlackBerry Messenger against the increasing price of gasoline, and, unable...
- Posted on 01/Aug/2010; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Conflict and security filtering, Filtering tech and software, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Privacy, Surveillance, United Arab Emirates
ONI Blog: Afghanistan begins Internet filtering with Gmail, Facebook
Afghanistan has followed up on its promise to begin filtering the Internet: the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports the country is now blocking Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, YouTube and a host of sites related to alcohol, gambling and sex.
In March, the...
- Posted on 28/Jun/2010; tagged in Afghanistan, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Venezuelan news site accused of "attacking constitutional order" and "supporting a coup d’état"
On Sunday, Hugo Chávez ordered a federal investigation of one of the nation’s most widely read online news sources, Noticiero Digital.
On his live, weekly television program, Aló Presidente, Chávez accused Noticiero Digital of “attacking constitutional order” and “supporting a...
- Posted on 11/Jun/2010; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Conflict and security filtering, Latin America, Venezuela
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review: Filtering, Surveillance, Information Warfare
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to release its 2009 Year in Review, a look into instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the world in 2009.
The events of 2009 demonstrated a global rise in third-generation Internet controls. ...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2010; tagged in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Cybercrime and security, DNS tampering, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, ONI, Overblocking, Political filtering, Proxy blocking, Publications, Reverse filtering, Search result removal, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
