Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Australian Filtering Goes Live, "Trivial" to Bypass
Last week, our friends over at Herdict reported on the proposed ISP-level censorship in Australia. The plan, released by Telstra and Optus (two major ISPs), aims to protect Australian citizens by blocking child pornography and child exploitation sites...
- Posted on 06/Jul/2011; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Circumvention, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: German government gives up Internet filter law
On 5 April 2011 the German conservative-liberal government decided to give up their plans to establish Internet filters after a respective law to impede the access to child porn websites (Zugangserschwerungsgesetz) was set on hold for more than a year.
The law...
- Posted on 07/Apr/2011; tagged in Europe, Germany, Legislation, Social filtering, Voluntary 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.
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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, Filtering tech and software, Internet tools filtering, Kuwait, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Oman, Political filtering, Qatar, Social filtering, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States/Canada, Voluntary 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 Filtering tech and software, Latin America, Political filtering, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering
Report: Sex, Social Mores, and Keyword Filtering: Microsoft Bing in the "Arabian Countries"
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Overview
Microsoft recently added a new layer of complexity to the ongoing debate regarding the filtering and censorship practices of U.S. search engines via its own search engine, Bing. ONI testing reveals liberal...
- Posted on 04/Mar/2010; tagged in Algeria, Internet tools filtering, Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Search result removal, Social filtering, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review: Filtering, Surveillance, Information Warfare
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to release its 2009 Year in Review, a look into instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the world in 2009.
The events of 2009 demonstrated a global rise in third-generation Internet controls. ...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2010; tagged in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Cybercrime and security, DNS tampering, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, ONI, Overblocking, Political filtering, Proxy blocking, Publications, Reverse filtering, Search result removal, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: United States: Is Filtering in Schools the Answer?
Is filtering in schools the answer? That's the question being asked across the United States. Although it is required by federal law to filter pornographic and other obscene content, many K-12 schools are choosing to also filter social networks, video...
- Posted on 01/Sep/2009; tagged in Obscenity, Social filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Australia's Conroy named Internet Villain of the Year
Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has come under fire from Australian citizens and digital activists around the world for his attempts to increase Internet filtering in Australia.
This week, the UK Internet Service Providers'...
- Posted on 13/Jul/2009; tagged in Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Overblocking, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: ONI Releases Reports on Filtering in Asia, China
New research from the OpenNet Initiative reveals accelerating restrictions on Internet content as Asian governments shift to next generation controls. These new techniques go beyond blocking access to websites and are more informal and fluid, implemented at edges of the network, and...
- Posted on 16/Jun/2009; tagged in Asia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Conflict and security filtering, India, Indonesia, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Non-filtering content restrictions, North Korea, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Singapore, Social filtering, South Korea, Surveillance, Thailand, Vietnam, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Internet Censorship in Saudi
Saudi Arabia has one of the most restrictive Internet filters in the world, yet according to BusinessWeek news reports, the Saudi censorship regime is vastly unlike that of most countries. Employing a mere twenty-five people, the country’s Communication and...
- Posted on 30/Nov/2008; tagged in Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Saudi Arabia, Social filtering, Surveillance, Voluntary filtering
