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ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: February 3, 2012
Polish citizens protested on the streets in Warsaw and other cities around the country in response to the government's decision to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Many who are against the proposed bill to protect against copyright infringement is calling ACTA...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2012; tagged in Europe, Threats to the Open Net, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Google Joins Twitter in Move Toward Selective Censorship
Following Twitter's recent footsteps, Google announced that it would also begin censoring content on a country-to-country basis. Wired first broke the story that Google will be implementing changes to Blogger that will allow blog posts to be blocked in individual countries....
ONI Blog: Twitter Announces Censorship on Country-to-Country Basis
Last Thursday, Twitter announced on its blog that it would begin censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis. The company stated:
As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression....
- Posted on 01/Feb/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 27, 2012
After Wikipedia went dark for a day to protest SOPA and PIPA, the bills lost support, with 19 senators backing out. PIPA co-sponsor Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for "pushing forward with a flawed bill...
- Posted on 27/Jan/2012; tagged in Europe, Threats to the Open Net, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Rupert Murdoch Lashes Out Against Obama and Google About Piracy on Twitter
When Rupert Mordoch joined Twitter shortly after New Year's, he immediately took advantage of his 100,000-plus following and took to his feed to sharply criticize the Obama administration and Google over piracy concerns. Over the weekend, several "rants" appeared that...
- Posted on 20/Jan/2012; tagged in Cybercrime and security, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: SOPA/PIPA Update: Calling for Voting Cancellation, House Hypocrisy, and a Wikipedia Blackout
Last week has been intensely eventful for those keeping up with the ongoing and unfolding drama concerning the SOPA/PIPA proposals. On Friday, six senators wrote a collective letter to majority leader Harry Reid asking him to cancel the Senate's vote on...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 13, 2012
Members of the NetCoalition trade association are considering shutting down in protest of the SOPA bill that's about to be voted on in Congress. Companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been discussing the possibility of conducting a mass Internet...
- Posted on 13/Jan/2012; tagged in Asia, India, Iran, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Surveillance, Take-down, Threats to the Open Net, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 6, 2012
Iran's parliament has recently proposed to implement stricter controls over the Internet, including placing blog posts, comments, and text messages under the same surveillance as mainstream media. In attempts to create a "national" and "clean" Internet, the Iranian government is acting...
- Posted on 06/Jan/2012; tagged in Copyright, Europe, Iran, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Surveillance, Threats to the Open Net, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: December 9, 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 09/Dec/2011; tagged in Asia, Europe, India, Russia, Threats to the Open Net, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Anonymous Threatens U.S. Government Over Potential Internet Censorship
Receiving multiple criticisms from all sides of the blogosphere and online news media, SOPA got a new enemy last week as Anonymous hacker group threatened the U.S. government to stop what they see as an attempt to censor the Internet. A...
