Elections
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2011 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2011 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Starting domestically, 2011 saw the beginnings of SOPA and PIPA, bills...
- Posted on 23/Apr/2012; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Data retention, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Privacy, Search result removal, Social filtering, Surveillance, Take-down, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Russia Turns to Internet Before Elections Despite Fears of Media Crackdown
As the countdown to Russia's national elections this weekend keeps ticking, more Russians are taking to the Internet to stay informed about the election activities as well as to criticize current prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin and the government...
ONI Blog: Pakistan Plans to Step Up Censorship Before Elections
Pakistan has recently come out with a National URL Filtering and Blocking System that would allow it to block 50 million websites, according to PCWorld. Pakistan's National ICT R&D Fund, a division of the Ministry of Information Technology, ran ads...
ONI Blog: Tor Helps Iranians Get Back Online
Iranian Internet users experienced a drastic blackout over the weekend as the government blocked encrypted Internet traffic. Tor, an anonymity and circumvention tool that offersa network run by volunteers, reported that on Friday, the number of Tor users in Iran—usually around...
- Posted on 15/Feb/2012; tagged in Elections, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Take-down
ONI Blog: Russian Websites Come Under DDoS Attack on Election Day
Several Russian websites came under DDoS attack during the country's national elections beginning last week. On December 1, a few political websites were taken down, and in the days following, prominent news portals including NewTimes.ru and the Russian News Service were...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 1, 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 01/Jul/2011; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, China, Elections, Europe, Legislation, Privacy, Thailand, Threats to the Open Net, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Protests mark the second anniversary of the "Twitter Revolution" in Iran
According to The Wall Street Journal, approximately 15,000 people gathered in Tehran on Sunday to commemorate the second anniversary of the the disputed presidential election of 2009, which led to the Iranian election protests and the so-called ...
- Posted on 15/Jun/2011; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Elections, Human rights, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
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: Taking offline censorship online: Rwanda may start filtering
In April the Rwandan government suspended two independent newspapers, both critical of the ruling party. The six-month suspension will prevent the papers from covering the country's 2010 presidential elections.
The Committee to Protect Journalists called the move "a...
- Posted on 07/Jun/2010; tagged in Elections, Political filtering, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan Africa, Take-down
ONI Blog: ONI releases new survey of Internet filtering and surveillance in Iran
Last week, as Iranian voters went to the polls to elect the country's next president, the Iranian government blocked access to number of political Web sites, as well as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Yesterday the OpenNet Initiative profiled the extent of this...
- Posted on 16/Jun/2009; tagged in Elections, Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Publications
