Political filtering
ONI Blog: Iranians Regain Access to Facebook After Day-Long Ban
Iranians regained access to Facebook and Twitter following a one-day government-imposed ban last week, CNN News reports. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated that he had not called for the ban, adding that he believes “in maximum freedom of expression.”
The...
- Posted on 01/Jun/2009; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering
ONI Blog: UAE: An Expanding Censorship Regime?
Dubai police are pursuing a plan to censor upwards of 500 search terms deemed offensive in an effort to block access to certain websites, AME Info reports. Though no progress has yet been made, according to Lieutenant General...
- Posted on 31/May/2009; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering
ONI Blog: German Police Shut Down Wikileaks Domain
According to The Inquirer, German police have raided the offices of WikiLeaks.de, a website that publishes leaks of government documents, transferring control of the domain to German authorities and shutting down the website.
This move was triggered by WikiLeaks’ publication...
ONI Blog: Herdict Launches Arabic Site; Saudi Arabia Reports
Herdict Web, the proud child of ONI, has just launched its new Arabic user interface. In the past 24 hours since the launch, the Herdict team has been thrilled to note a high number of reports coming from the...
- Posted on 09/Apr/2009; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Freedom House Releases Key Findings on Internet Freedom
Freedom House has released a report of its key findings on Internet freedom. The report, which focuses primarily on filtering and surveillance, ranked a number of countries from "free" to "not free" based on accessibility, filtering, and surveillance practices. ...
ONI Blog: Bangladesh Blocks Access to YouTube
According to news reports, the government of Bangladesh blocked access to YouTube on March 9 after the site hosted a recording of a meeting between the prime minister and military officials following a border guard mutiny in late February of this...
ONI Blog: India: Maharashtra Wants Censorship of Google Earth
According to reports in The Hindu, India’s Maharashtra government is revisiting legal options to censor Google Earth in the wake of the program’s alleged use in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Curbing the use of Google Earth...
- Posted on 12/Mar/2009; tagged in India, Asia, ONI, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Dubai police chief wages war on youtube
Commander-in-Chief of Dubai police Lt General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim called (full article in Arabic , English summary) this week for the blocking of the social networking Web site youtube because, he said, the site contains religiously inappropriate...
- Posted on 10/Mar/2009; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Hate speech, Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: The Internet and Political Censorship in Mexico
By Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Renata Ávila
In the past few months, an interesting debate has emerged in Mexico regarding the upcoming federal congressional elections after the electoral reform (a constitutional amendment) of 2007. According to various news reports, ...
- Posted on 05/Mar/2009; tagged in Mexico, Latin America, Arrests and legal action, Elections, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Middle East countries continue to censor content deemed offensive to Muslims
Countries in the Middle East continue to block online content deemed offensive to Muslims. The latest example comes from the United Arab Emirates which blocked access this week to the Web site Ahmed and Salim, an Israeli Web site which...
- Posted on 01/Mar/2009; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Hate speech, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
