Political filtering
ONI Blog: Vietnam: Google, Yahoo! sought to regulate blogosphere
According to AFP news reports, Vietnam’s government wants to enlist Google and Yahoo! to help “regulate” the country’s blogging scene in an effort to stop “incorrect information” from being published online.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of activity in...
- Posted on 04/Dec/2008; tagged in Vietnam, Asia, Arrests and legal action, ONI, Political filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Internet Censorship in Saudi
Saudi Arabia has one of the most restrictive Internet filters in the world, yet according to BusinessWeek news reports, the Saudi censorship regime is vastly unlike that of most countries. Employing a mere twenty-five people, the country’s Communication and...
- Posted on 30/Nov/2008; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Surveillance, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Studying Chinese blog censorship
On Thursday this past week, Beijing-based lawyer-blogger Liu Xiaoyuan won Deutsche Welle's annual prize for the Best Chinese Blog. Then on Friday he discovered that the parallel blog he keeps at Sohu.com had been taken down. Fortunately, being a...
ONI Blog: Adiós Diego: Argentine judges cleanse the Internet
By: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Christopher Soghoian
Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of country's most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina...
- Posted on 11/Nov/2008; tagged in Argentina, Latin America, Defamation, Take-down, Search result removal, Political filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: Turkey's Capricious Filtering - Just Too Easy
Turkey has made headlines lately for its capricious filtering; although previous incidents involved filtering sites which insulted Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" in general, lately, the filtering seems nearly impulsive.
A site entitled List of websites blocked by Turkish Telecom...or how Turkey disgraces...
- Posted on 07/Nov/2008; tagged in Turkey, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Social filtering, Overblocking, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Burma Steps Up Internet Restrictions
According to news reports, Burma’s military government has taken further steps to restrict citizen access to the Internet by silencing dissidents and stepping up raids on Internet cafes. Hacker attacks originating from Russia, China, and Singapore blocked access to four...
- Posted on 27/Oct/2008; tagged in Burma, Asia, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Users' initiatives to block Web sites
An Arabic Web site called Ehjeb (Arabic for the verb "to block") is becoming increasingly popular especially in Web forums. The site, still in beta version, offers to facilitate blocking of web sites by sending URLs of questionable Web sites...
- Posted on 24/Oct/2008; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Livejournal.com Inaccessible in Kazakhstan
Bloggers in Kazakhstan are having difficulty accessing popular blogging platform Livejournal. It was reported widely on Friday that Livejournal.com was inaccessible. The Moscow Times said of the alleged block:
Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship on Friday after being...
- Posted on 15/Oct/2008; tagged in Kazakhstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Political filtering
ONI Blog: UAE blog blocked after analyzing impact of US financial crisis on UAE economy
The UAE ISPs blocked access to the Arabic blog Mujarad Ensan (Just a man) a few days after the blogger published a post sarcastically entitled "Lough with me and say: Our economy is in a good condition" in which he...
- Posted on 14/Oct/2008; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Speaking Out in Malaysia
The arrest of blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act on September 12, just as his website Malaysia Today (http://mt.m2day.org/) was reported to be unblocked, provides an ominous reminder that there may be more effective ways of silencing...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2008; tagged in Malaysia, Asia, Arrests and legal action, Publications, Political filtering, Social filtering
