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ONI Blog: Pool Halls and 'Net Cafes in China
Red Herring adds perspective to China's closing of Internet cafes. The story has a balanced perspective, with a great musical reference and quotes from ONI's technical expert Nart Villeneuve.
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ONI Blog: Back Online in Nepal?
The Media Drop interviews the blogger from Radio Free Nepal, who claims that Nepal's Internet is back up and running. Filtering of some Web sites, such as those of the Maoist rebels, evidently remains in place.
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Following reports that Nepal's Internet had been shutdown after King Gyanendra seized power, I tested 578 .np (Nepal) domains, retrieved from Google (site:.np) to determine if they were accessible. The results show that 278 .np domains, presumably hosted...
ONI Blog: Nepal clamps down on Internet sites
After dismissing the government in a coup, King Gyanendra of Nepal has suspended many of the country's constitutional guarantees, including freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This apparently extends to the country's Web sites as well.
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Major internet service providers in South Korea were ordered by the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to block domestic access to 31 websites considered to be carrying propaganda favoring the North Korean regime. Tests undertaken by the ONI in December 2004...
OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 009
January 31, 2005
Last Updated: January 31, 2005
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Observations
- About the OpenNet Initiative
Background
Major internet service providers in South Korea were ordered by the Ministry of...
South Korea has been under pressure about its blocking of North Korean Web sites. The Unification Minister was challenged on how censorship comports with South Korea's policy of openness towards the DPRK. South Korea is thinking of lifting at least...
The Chinese government has focused increasing attention on the control of blogs; three major blog providers have implemented a filtering mechanism to control the content of blog posts. If a sensitive keyword is present in a blog entry the filtering mechanism is...
OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 008
January 14, 2005
Last Updated: January 20, 2005
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Conclusions
Background
Weblogs, most often called "blogs" have become one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet. The...
An official at China's Bureau of Culture has called for greater control over, and monitoring of, Internet content. The official cited the risk of "cultural aggression" in an article in the issue of Seeking Truth, the Chinese Communist Party's political magazine.
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