All Content Related to Asia
It has now been four years since Google announced its intent to censor search results in China. In January of 2006, after finding Google.com to be down about 10% of the time, Google made the now infamous decision to start...
- Posted on 13/Jan/2010; tagged in Asia, China, Non-filtering content restrictions, United States of America -
ONI Blog: Is Vietnam Blocking Facebook?
According to an AP report, access to Facebook in Vietnam has been intermittent over the past week, with many users fearing a government block.
Facebook has over 1 million users in Vietnam, a considerable amount in a country with 22 million...
Last week Malaysia's Information, Communications and Culture Minister Dr. Rais Yatim announced that the country would consider implementing a nationwide Internet filtering plan similar to China's Green Dam. This week, the Prime Minister pulled an about face, claiming there...
- Posted on 13/Aug/2009; tagged in Asia, Cybercrime and security, Legislation, Malaysia, Obscenity, Social filtering -
According to the Chinese government, Namibia — a southern African country with a population of 2 million — does not exist.
Government censors ordered Chinese search engines to show no search results for the country's name this week, following a corruption...
- Posted on 22/Jul/2009; tagged in Asia, China, Political filtering, Search result removal, Take-down -
China has completely shut down Internet service in the autonomous region of Xinjiang after ethnic riots left at least 140 people dead and hundreds more injured. Twitter also appears to be blocked throughout the country.
Government-owned news agency Xinhua is ...
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 -
A California-based software company has accused a Chinese company of lifting parts of the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software directly from its own CyberSitter program.
Solid Oak Software Inc. claims that parts of the Green Dam code, including...
- Posted on 15/Jun/2009; tagged in Asia, China, Copyright, Filtering tech and software, United States of America, United States/Canada -
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Regional Profile: Asia.
Overview
It is not surprising that Asia, a region with extraordinary cultural, social, and political diversity, is home to a broad and range of approaches, policies, and practices toward Internet...
- Posted on 15/Jun/2009; tagged in Asia, Publications -
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Overview
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profile: China.
China continues to expand on one of the largest and most sophisticated filtering systems in the world, despite the government’s...
The news that China will begin requiring all computers sold in the country to include Internet filtering software has sparked waves of commentary on topics ranging from legal challenges to human rights issues to concerns about security and...
- Posted on 12/Jun/2009; tagged in Asia, China, Filtering tech and software, Publications, Social filtering -
