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The OpenNet Initiative is proud to release its 2009 Year in Review, a look into instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the world in 2009.
The events of 2009 demonstrated a global rise in third-generation Internet controls. ...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2010; tagged in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Cybercrime and security, DNS tampering, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, ONI, Overblocking, Political filtering, Proxy blocking, Publications, Reverse filtering, Search result removal, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering -
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has been monitoring Internet filtering around the world since 2002. Currently, more that 40 countries are filtering the Internet to varying degrees, while a number of others, including Australia, Iraq, and Spain, are considering enacting filtering policies....
- Posted on 19/Jan/2010; tagged in Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Europe, Germany, Human rights, IP blocking, Iraq, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North Korea, Overblocking, Political filtering, Proxy blocking, Russia, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, United Kingdom -
In preparation for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Thursday, China has blocked access to Twitter, Hotmail, Flickr, MSN Spaces and several other web services, reports the Times Online.
The Internet crackdown, which began at 5pm local time on...
The headlines in Guatemala's top newspaper, as well as on internationally popular site Boing Boing reported that a Twitter user was arrested by Guatemalan authorities, facing charges of “intent to incite financial panic." The last couple of weeks have been complicated...
- Posted on 14/May/2009; tagged in Cybercrime and security, Guatemala, Human rights, Latin America -
ONI Blog: The Worst Places to be a Blogger
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released a list of the ten worst countries in which to blog. Topping the list is Burma, followed closely by Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt.
In determining...
- Posted on 30/Apr/2009; tagged in Asia, Burma, Egypt, Europe, Human rights, Iran, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Saudi Arabia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Tunisia -
ONI Blog: Dubai police chief wages war on youtube
Commander-in-Chief of Dubai police Lt General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim called (full article in Arabic , English summary) this week for the blocking of the social networking Web site youtube because, he said, the site contains religiously inappropriate...
- Posted on 10/Mar/2009; tagged in Hate speech, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Political filtering, Social filtering, United Arab Emirates -
On February 11, Vodafone's global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, revealed that Vodafone handed over communications data to the Egyptian authorities in response to government demands. This data may have been used to help identify rioters who were...
- Posted on 24/Feb/2009; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Data retention, Egypt, Human rights, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Privacy, Surveillance -
ONI Blog: Over 1,203 Sites Blocked in Thailand
Over the weekend, it was reported by WikiLeaks that the secret censorship lists of Thailand's Ministroy of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) had been obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, who is the director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand.
Wikileaks...
ONI Blog: Internet Censorship in Saudi
Saudi Arabia has one of the most restrictive Internet filters in the world, yet according to BusinessWeek news reports, the Saudi censorship regime is vastly unlike that of most countries. Employing a mere twenty-five people, the country’s Communication and...
- Posted on 30/Nov/2008; tagged in Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Saudi Arabia, Social filtering, Surveillance, Voluntary filtering -
ONI Blog: Australia's Slippery Slope
With all of the news lately regarding Australia's Internet filtering scheme, one might think Australia were the first or only country to ever filter the Internet.
Since the filter was announced in 2007, it has been widely criticized. First, Australia announced...
