Political filtering
ONI Blog: BBC's Application for U.S. State Department Funding Draws American Criticism
UPDATE: In April 2011, the BBC World Service Trust stopped vying for U.S. State Department funding for their efforts to combat censorship in China, Iran, and other countries. The Foundry reported that enough American public outcry at taxpayer money toward the...
- Posted on 31/Mar/2011; tagged in United States of America, United Kingdom, United States/Canada, Europe, Legislation, Political filtering
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, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Filtering tech and software
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 Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Julian Assange Publicly Criticizes Chinese Government for Censorship
Last week, Julian Assange lashed out against the Chinese government for their online censorship practices to a British magazine. In an interview with The New Statesman, The director of WikiLeaks called China the "technological enemy" of the whistle-blowing website, ...
ONI Blog: Hungary's New Media Law Faces Opposition in the EU
Just three weeks after Hungary took over the European Union's presidency, the Hungarian government is already facing protests over a newly passed media law in the nation. According to Digital Civil Rights in Europe, the approved...
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 Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Filtering tech and software
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 Tunisia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Take-down, Anonymity, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering, DNS tampering
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, United States of America, United States/Canada, ONI, Intermediary Censorship, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Syrian Telecom Minister: The answer is raising awareness, not censorship
According to Sada Souria, Syrian Telecom Minister, Imad Saboni, said in a recent lecture at Tishreen University that he personally believes that “effectively raising awareness of the dangers of the internet is the answer, not blocking websites.” Saboni alluded...
- Posted on 08/Dec/2010; tagged in Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Google CEO Criticizes Chinese Internet Censorship
Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt criticized the Chinese government’s continued efforts to censor Internet content in the country at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Calling attention to a year-long dispute between Google and China concerning search...
- Posted on 11/Nov/2010; tagged in China, Germany, Asia, Europe, Surveillance, Privacy, ONI, Political filtering
