Political filtering
ONI Blog: Internet Filtering in Latin America
When we look at Internet filtering globally, Latin America doesn't stand out as an example; across the region, precious few countries engage in government-level filtering. Rather, as blogger David Sasaki points out, freedom of expression is limited in a variety of...
- Posted on 02/Nov/2010; tagged in Latin America, Political filtering, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Older Generation of Chinese Politicians Seek to End Censorship
For the younger demographics living in China during the age of social media and online networking, Facebook, Twitter, and numerous other Web 2.0 sites remain inaccessible to them. But it may be an older generation that will change that for...
ONI Blog: Threats of Censorship Loom with New Internet Copyright Infringement Bill
The “Great Firewall” is something most Americans only associate with Chinese Internet regulation, but they may be able to add their own country to that list soon.
On September 20, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the...
- Posted on 06/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Copyright, Political filtering
ONI Blog: A Moment in Time: A Very Short History of Content Regulation
Renata Uitz of Central European University welcomes Rob Faris, research director of the Berkman Center and the OpenNet Initiative.
"A bunch of smart people invented the internet," says Faris, highlighting the wonderful ways in which the Internet brought millions of people together. "People...
- Posted on 21/Sep/2010; tagged in ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Overblocking, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: #iranelection Censored? Evaluating Twitter's Trending Topics
Written in collaboration with Devin Gaffney.
Following the anniversary of the Iran election protests on June 12th, Iranian reform protesters began accusing Twitter of censoring #iranelection when the hashtag did not trend on the site that day. Some protestors went so far...
ONI Blog: Afghanistan begins Internet filtering with Gmail, Facebook
Afghanistan has followed up on its promise to begin filtering the Internet: the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports the country is now blocking Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, YouTube and a host of sites related to alcohol, gambling and sex.
In March, the...
- Posted on 28/Jun/2010; tagged in Afghanistan, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering
ONI Blog: Editor of blocked website murdered in Rwanda
Earlier this month we blogged about the Rwandan government's announcement that it would begin blocking the website of independent newspaper Umuvugizi if the paper did not cease publication.
Today, the BBC reports that the acting editor of Umuvugizi was shot...
ONI Blog: Mexico: #Cananea censored?
Last Sunday night, nearly two thousand federal police forces in the northern state of Sonora forcibly ended a workers’ strike, evacuating members of the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union from outside of the Cananea copper mines, where they had been picketing...
ONI Blog: Turkey Blocks YouTube, Inadvertently Blocks Google Services
Turkish internet users have been tweeting that that they have been unable to access some Google Services over the past few days, using the hashtag #TurkeyCensorGoogle. Tweeters such as @xceptn have been speculating that this is because their Internet Service...
ONI Blog: Vietnam's New Green Dam?
Vietnam is continuing its steep fall down a slippery slope of Internet censorship and filtration and is raising more concerns over its new cyber-technology implementation.
Internet censorship is nothing new to Vietnam, yet its policies have remained very much out...
- Posted on 08/Jun/2010; tagged in Vietnam, Asia, Surveillance, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Filtering tech and software
