Political filtering
ONI Blog: Facebook is unblocked in Tunisia by presidential order
Internet users in Tunisia were able to access the social networking Web site facebook today after it was blocked by the country's ISPs last month without giving any reason. Interestingly, the President of Tunisia Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali himself ordered the...
- Posted on 03/Sep/2008; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering
ONI Blog: Turkey and YouTube: A Contentious Relationship
Turkey has a contentious relationship with popular video-sharing site YouTube. Blocked for the first time in early 2007, YouTube was intermittently available for most of 2007, only to be banned again in January of 2008.
Each time, the...
ONI Blog: Online censorship in Tunisia
Sami Ben Gharbia of Global Voices posted an excellent review of recently blocked blogs, social networking Web sites (including facebook), and video sharing sites. The post also presents users' reaction to online censorship and the anti-censorship campaigns organized...
- Posted on 24/Aug/2008; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering
ONI Blog: Saudi journalist to Western journalists in Beijing on Internet filtering: “quit your belly aching”
Saudi journalist Molouk Y. Ba-Isa wrote an interesting article in Saudi Arabia’s principal English daily (Arab News) in which she reminds the Western journalists covering the 2008 Olympics in Beijing that censorship for people like her in countries such as Saudi...
- Posted on 14/Aug/2008; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: The Olympics and the Eyes of World
Hosting the Olympics has been a bittersweet experience so far for China, particularly for those that would have wanted this to be a showcase for the tremendous advances that have taken place in China over the past two decades. For a...
- Posted on 08/Aug/2008; tagged in China, Asia, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: OpenNet to Closely Monitor Chinese Internet Filtering
Seven years ago, during China's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government promised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a more open China, with unfettered Internet access for foreign journalists being used as a prime example...
ONI Blog: Sudan blocks youtube: Is it political or social?
Sudan blocked access to the video sharing Web site youtube last week without giving any explanation. Users who attempt to access the site receive the standard blockpage which says, “Sorry this page has been blocked by [the] National Telecommunication Corporation”.
While it is...
- Posted on 28/Jul/2008; tagged in Sudan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Facebook Faceoff
As spite spurs activism among the nation’s youth, Egypt contemplates banning Facebook- the infamous Social Networking Site (SNS) that has taken the country by storm.
The rising food prices and consequential rise in cost of living in Egypt has caused a great...
- Posted on 21/Jul/2008; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Testing Unblocked Foreign Websites inside China
Some signs have indicated that Chinese government is loosening the Internet censorship before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. According to reports , the Chinese government has stopped restricting access to the Chinese Wikipedia in China...
