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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...
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 Asia, Conflict and security filtering, India, ONI, Political filtering -
Many a DVD collector over the years has been disappointed upon learning that their rare DVD from Taiwan or France can't be played on their American DVD player. Just as DVD region codes limit viewing to a geographic area, the geofiltering...
- Posted on 03/Mar/2009; tagged in Asia, Filtering tech and software, Geolocation, India, Pakistan, Reverse filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada -
A recent report on user-generated content on social media and blogging platforms in China reveals that there is variation in censorship levels across fifteen different blogging platforms according to a paper by Berkman affiliate Rebecca MacKinnon.
The report, “China’s Censorship 2.0: How...
- Posted on 25/Feb/2009; tagged in Asia, China, Non-filtering content restrictions, ONI, Political filtering -
In early December 2008, an Indian court was convened to ban Google Earth amid suggestions that the online satellite imaging was used to aid terrorists in planning the November terror attacks in Mumbai. According to late January reports in the ...
- Posted on 08/Feb/2009; tagged in Asia, Conflict and security filtering, India, ONI, Political filtering -
According to reports in the Register, three of China’s most popular search engines, including Google China and Baidu, have apologized for being slow to remove links to pornographic websites.
This news comes in the wake of China’s pledge...
ONI Blog: China's latest Internet crackdown
This blog post was originally posted at Rebecca MacKinnon's blog, RConversation, and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
Seven different government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security and the State Council Information Office declared war on Internet...
- Posted on 07/Jan/2009; tagged in Asia, China, IP blocking, Political filtering, Social filtering -
ONI Blog: Over 1,203 Sites Blocked in Thailand
Over the weekend, it was reported by WikiLeaks that the secret censorship lists of Thailand's Ministroy of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) had been obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, who is the director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand.
Wikileaks...
ONI Blog: India: Petition to block Google Earth
According to reports published in The Register and The Times of London, an Indian court has been called to ban Google Earth in response to intelligence indicating that the satellite imaging was used in planning November’s terrorist attack’s...
- Posted on 20/Dec/2008; tagged in Asia, Conflict and security filtering, India, Legislation, ONI, Political filtering -
According to New York Times and BBC news reports, the Chinese government has begun to reinvigorate its filtration of foreign websites, including bans on BBC’s Chinese language website and Voice of America in Chinese. This censorship comes in...
