Human rights
ONI Blog: Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threatens Web Freedom, Critics Say
News of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) surfaced last week with the leak of the US chapter concerning intellectual property. A trade agreement between nine countries including Australia, Singapore, and Peru, the bill threatens even more restrictions on intellectual...
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: Ai Weiwei Says Censorship in China Will Ultimately Fail
After being released from retainment last year, Ai Weiwei has published an op-ed criticizing Internet censorship by the Chinese Communist Party. The Guardian UK published a commentary titled "China's censorship can never defeat the internet" last Sunday by Ai. In criticizing...
ONI Blog: Reporters Without Borders Releases "Enemies of the Internet" Report
Last week on World Day Against Cyber Censorship, Reporters Without Borders released this year's "Enemies of the Internet" report. Among the newest additions to the list are Bahrain and Belarus, both of which had been under surveillance but had not...
- Posted on 20/Mar/2012; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Bahrain, Belarus, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Egypt, Europe, Human rights, India, Libya, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North Korea, Political filtering, South Korea, Surveillance, Venezuela
ONI Blog: CPJ Urges End To Internet Censorship in 2011 Report
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently released its 2011 "Attacks on the Press" report. In the report, the CPJ urged countries and organizations to band together to fight censorship. One of the articles in the report noted that with...
- Posted on 28/Feb/2012; tagged in Asia, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Pakistan, Publications, Thailand
ONI Blog: Russian Government Shuts Down Public Health Website
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch reported that the Russian government deliberately shut down the website of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice. The website discussed the drug methadone, which is known to be effective in combatting opiate addiction...
ONI Blog: Iran Creates Stricter Controls in Internet Cafés Ahead of Elections
The Iranian government is stepping up controls on the Internet in the country, just in time for the country's legislative elections in March. New measures have been placed on Internet cafés that will now require users to provide...
- Posted on 20/Jan/2012; tagged in Human rights, Iran, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering
ONI Blog: Rwandan Government Accused of Role in Online Journalist's Murder
A Rwandan online journalist's death late last year has stirred up controversy, with some alleging the Rwandan government had a hand in the murder. Charles Ingabire, an online news editor for the news website Inyenyeri, was shot last month in a...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: December 16, 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 16/Dec/2011; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Egypt, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Rwanda, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Behind Blue Coat: Investigations of commercial filtering in Syria and Burma
There is growing concern about the use of commercial filtering and surveillance technology in countries that regularly restrict Internet content and violate human rights. Considerable attention has been focused in recent weeks on Syria, particularly following the Syrian regime’s violent crackdown against...
- Posted on 09/Nov/2011; tagged in Asia, Burma, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Publications, Surveillance, Syria
