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ONI Blog: Pakistan Blocks YouTube Videos
In 2008, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority blocked YouTube in what was said to be a reaction to a trailer of Geert Wilder's film "Fitna" hosted on the video-sharing site. The ban was reversed soon afterward, and Pakistani netizens have enjoyed unfettered...
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 -
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 -
Jordan has long stood out as a beacon in a region of heavy Internet filtering. Bordered by--among others--Syria and Saudi Arabia, two of the Middle East's worst offenders, Jordan has filtered only one Web site, arabtimes.com, for the past decade.
That...
- Posted on 15/Jan/2010; tagged in Jordan, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering -
ONI Blog: Algeria joins the Internet censors club
Algeria joins an increasingly expanding list of government Internet censors in the Middle East and North Africa. ONI's in-country tests conducted January 1, 2010 verified that access to the the Web site of the Algerian political movement Rachad (www.rachad.org) has been banned...
- Posted on 02/Jan/2010; tagged in Algeria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering -
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has unblocked access to Web sites on the Israeli country code top-level domain “.il"
ONI noticed earlier this month that .il Web sites have been accessible from the UAE, and has since been testing for filtering of...
- Posted on 20/Nov/2009; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, United Arab Emirates -
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has released updated reports on Ethiopia and Zimbabwe and new reports on Uganda and Nigeria, where ONI tested for the first time in 2008 and 2009. All four profiles can be accessed at: http://opennet.net/research/regions/ssafrica.
Many governments across sub-Saharan...
- Posted on 01/Oct/2009; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Ethiopia, Filtering tech and software, Nigeria, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe -
ONI Blog: Overblocking in Oman
The OpenNet Initiative recently released new profiles for a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, including updates of previously researched countries.
In one such country, Oman, our research found there to be significant social filtering, as well as...
- Posted on 08/Sep/2009; tagged in Filtering tech and software, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Oman, Overblocking, Political filtering, Social filtering -
According to the Chinese government, Namibia — a southern African country with a population of 2 million — does not exist.
Government censors ordered Chinese search engines to show no search results for the country's name this week, following a corruption...
- Posted on 22/Jul/2009; tagged in Asia, China, Political filtering, Search result removal, Take-down -
China has completely shut down Internet service in the autonomous region of Xinjiang after ethnic riots left at least 140 people dead and hundreds more injured. Twitter also appears to be blocked throughout the country.
Government-owned news agency Xinhua is ...
