Social filtering
ONI Blog: Russian Government Shuts Down Public Health Website
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch reported that the Russian government deliberately shut down the website of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice. The website discussed the drug methadone, which is known to be effective in combatting opiate addiction...
ONI Blog: India Threatens to "Pull a China" and Block Social Networking Sites
China is well known as a leader in online censorship, but no other government has explicitly referenced the country as an example to follow—until now. Last Thursday, Delhi's High Court ordered Facebook and Google India to remove all "objectionable and offensive" material...
ONI Blog: India Government Asks Social Media Companies to Screen Content
The Indian government met with social media companies including Google and Facebook to discuss prescreening user content before it goes live on their respective websites. Executives from the companies organized a dicussion with telecommunications minister Kapil Sibal in order to negotiate...
ONI Blog: Pakistan's Mobile Carriers Delay Ban of 1,700 Words in SMS Messages
After the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority announced a list of nearly 1,695 words to be banned in SMS messages sent via Pakistani cellular networks, Pakistani mobile operators today said they would defer implementing the list until they receive further clarification from...
- Posted on 21/Nov/2011; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Pakistan, Social filtering, Surveillance
ONI Blog: Gaga Over Censorship in China
The Chinese government recently announced that it would no longer allow songs from artists like Lady Gaga and the Backstreet Boys to be played on Chinese websites. Last week, the country’s Ministry of Culture released a list of 100 songs...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 26, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 26/Aug/2011; tagged in Asia, China, Circumvention, Geolocational Filtering, Kazakhstan, Libya, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 19, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 19/Aug/2011; tagged in Asia, China, Geolocational Filtering, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering, Threats to the Open Net, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: New Data Added to ONI's Social Media Filtering Map
The OpenNet Initiative is excited to announce the addition of a full year of new data to its Social Media Filtering Map. The map gives users a visual overview where of Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Twitter, and Youtube have been blocked since...
- Posted on 10/Aug/2011; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tunisia
ONI Blog: ONI Releases New Report on Faith-Based Censorship
Internet censorship has become a growing and pervasive global norm. Internet censorship policies implemented by states are premised on a number of motives and rationales including...
- Posted on 01/Aug/2011; tagged in Publications, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Iran Ramps Up Internet Control
Iran has ramped up its measures of control on Internet content. Most recently, Iran blocked the rapidly expanding newcomer to the social networking scene, Google+, accusing it of being a US spy tool. This rhetoric is not new for the Iranian...
- Posted on 22/Jul/2011; tagged in Filtering tech and software, Geolocational Filtering, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Social filtering
