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ONI Blog: Egypt Bans Pornography Web sites
An Egyptian court has recently banned pornography Web sites, labeling them "venomous and vile," according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Egypt, which strictly bans offline pornography, already has a regulation which requires Internet cafe users to sign a form saying...
- Posted on 12/May/2009; tagged in Circumvention, Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Social filtering -
ONI Blog: Iran and Web Proxies
Iran’s Internet censorship regime is generally accepted to be one of the most aggressive in the world, yet according to the New York Times, by autumn 2008, more than 400,000 Iranians were able to access an uncensored web thanks to a...
- Posted on 06/May/2009; tagged in Circumvention, Filtering tech and software, Internet tools filtering, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Proxy blocking -
Blogger and Global Voices contributor Sami Ben Gharbia chats with Iranian Hamed Saber about his innovative method for bypassing the ban on Flickr.com -- a popular photo-archive website site blocked in Iran and the UAE.
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On December 1 the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab will release psiphon -- free software that will enable Internet users around the world to circumvent government censorship of the Web. Read NY Times article.
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- Posted on 29/Nov/2006; tagged in Circumvention -
Advisory 001
Last modified: May 5, 2004
I. Executive Summary
Internet access in Iran is subject to official censorship. Iranian authorities' guidelines for ISPs and users reportedly warn them to avoid all content seen as being in breach of social and cultural norms.[...
- Posted on 04/May/2004; tagged in Circumvention, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), United States of America, United States/Canada -
ONI testing found that filters built in to the IBB Anonymizer service block access to numerous non-pornographic pages and sites. Some of these apparently unintentionally blocked sites are themselves blocked within Iran, resulting in a situation where sites are effectively doubly blocked...
- Posted on 03/May/2004; tagged in Circumvention, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), United States of America -
