Elections
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
ONI Blog: Cracking Down on Digital Communication and Political Organizing in Iran
By Rob Faris and Rebekah Heacock
The Internet and mobile phones have taken on a major role in Iranian politics over the last several months. As protests over the contested election results continue in Iran, the government has dramatically increased its control...
ONI Blog: The Internet and Political Censorship in Mexico
By Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Renata Ávila
In the past few months, an interesting debate has emerged in Mexico regarding the upcoming federal congressional elections after the electoral reform (a constitutional amendment) of 2007. According to various news reports, ...
- Posted on 05/Mar/2009; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Elections, Latin America, Mexico, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Norooznews.ir: Yahoo email, messenger and group blocked in Iran
ISPs in Iran were ordered to block Yahoo email, messenger, and group sites, reported Iranian Web site Norooznews.ir (Farsi).
The site added that the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology refused to acknowledge the reports of the blocking which went into effect...
ONI Blog: Testing for Internet filtering during parliamentary elections in Jordan
ONI found no evidence of Internet tampering in Jordan during the November 20 parliamentary elections despite claims by the main opposition party that the polls were marred by vote-rigging and electoral fraud. ONI, through in-country testers, monitored online activities and accessibility...
- Posted on 25/Nov/2007; tagged in Elections, Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance
