Latin America
Regional Overview: Latin America
Introduction
With the exception of Cuba, systematic technical filtering of the Internet has yet to take hold in Latin America. The regulation of Internet content addresses largely the same concerns and strategies seen in North America and Europe, focusing on combating the spread...
- Posted on 15/May/2007; tagged in Latin America
Country Profile: Venezuela
Background
The government of Hugo Chávez is in the process of consolidating power after a number of electoral victories and a failed coup in 2002. This process has taken two forms: undermining judicial independence and wresting greater control over the media. Judges on...
- Posted on 09/May/2007; tagged in Latin America, Venezuela
Country Profile: Cuba
Internet in Cuba
In October 1996 Cuba first connected full time to the Internet, and in 1998 Cuba had only a single 64-Kbps satellite connection run by Sprint in Florida and allowed by an exception for communications to the U.S. trade embargo.Patrick Symmes,...
- Posted on 09/May/2007; tagged in Cuba, Latin America
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: November 11, 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 11/Nov/2011; tagged in Asia, Brazil, China, Copyright, Egypt, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Surveillance, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Argentina: Judge orders all ISPs to block the sites LeakyMails.com and Leakymails.blogspot.com
Crossposted from Global Voices Advocacy
Using the motto “Let’s stop lies and hypocrisy”, Leakymails.com was a project designed to obtain and publish relevant documents exposing corruption of the political...
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Afghanistan, Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Copyright, Cuba, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, India, Indonesia, IP blocking, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latin America, Lebanon, Legislation, Mexico, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Nigeria, ONI, Pakistan, Political filtering, Rwanda, Social filtering, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Take-down, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, United States/Canada, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: Week of 12/6/2010
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative will provide a weekly roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") on our blog, in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for the entire blog or...
- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, China, Iran, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Threats to the Open Net, United States/Canada, Venezuela
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
ONI Blog: Honduras: one year after the military coup, press freedom remains under siege
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the military coup d’état that drove now former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power. Since January of 2010, eight journalists have been assassinated, making Honduras the most dangerous country for journalists working in Latin America,...
- Posted on 29/Jun/2010; tagged in Human rights, Latin America
ONI Blog: Censorship by Venezuela’s largest ISP
Global Voices author Marianne Díaz reported that quelacreo (NSFW), a site that features photographs and video of violent sex crimes, was censored by CANTV, the government-controlled ISP that provides Internet service to over three quarters of the national population.
In...
