Internet tools filtering
ONI Blog: CPJ Ranks Ten Most Censored Countries
In preparation for World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists published its findings on the most censored countries in the world. The top three countries with the most press restrictions and least access to media information were revealed to...
- Posted on 03/May/2012; tagged in Asia, Belarus, Burma, Circumvention, Cuba, Europe, Guinea, Guinea, Internet tools filtering, Iran, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Saudi Arabia, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, Surveillance, Syria, Threats to the Open Net, Uzbekistan
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2011 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2011 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Starting domestically, 2011 saw the beginnings of SOPA and PIPA, bills...
- Posted on 23/Apr/2012; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Data retention, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Privacy, Search result removal, Social filtering, Surveillance, Take-down, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Global Internet filtering in 2012 at a glance
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has been documenting Internet filtering globally since 2003. Since that time, the number of countries found to be engaging in the censorship of online content has increased dramatically. While early reports of Internet filtering only identified a small...
- Posted on 03/Apr/2012; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Pakistan Halts Plans to Install Censoring System
The Pakistani government announced that it would stop plans to install a URL blocking system on the country's Internet network. National Assembly member Bushra Gohar told the press that the Ministry of Information Technology had withdrawn its decision about the...
- Posted on 21/Mar/2012; tagged in Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Internet tools filtering, Pakistan
ONI Blog: Reddit Users Create "Free Internet Act" in Response to SOPA/PIPA
Reddit users are actively combating controversial proposed Internet legislation SOPA and PIPA with a proposal of their own. Austrian Reddit user “RoyalWithCheese22" initiated the Free Internet Act and now heads the subreddit "r/fia." According to its mission statement, the group seeks...
- Posted on 23/Feb/2012; tagged in Internet tools filtering, Legislation, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: UK Government Drops Plans to Ban Social Media
Plans to censor the UK Internet amid recent riots have been dropped. As reported last month, Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a ban on social media in light of the unrest that swept over England in early August. In a...
ONI Blog: Netherlands becoming the first European country to adopt net neutrality
The Dutch parliament has discussed an amendment to the telecommunications law that would ban network operators from discriminating against specific services or applications. If it is enacted, the Netherlands would become the second country worldwide to put net neutrality into law.
The ...
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: Tunisia Shuts Off Internet Filter
Following a speech in which Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stated that all censorship of the internet and traditional media will be halted, Tunisia appears to have shut off its Internet filtering system.
At around 9:45pm local time, Tunisian news...
- Posted on 13/Jan/2011; tagged in Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering, Tunisia
ONI Blog: Amazon’s Kindle Bypasses the Great Firewall of China
The South China Morning Post recently reported that Kindle users can access banned websites in mainland China from the device. With Amazon’s electronic book gadget, Kindle users can now visit Facebook and Twitter, both currently blocked by the Chinese government....
