Intermediary Censorship
ONI Blog: Google Joins Twitter in Move Toward Selective Censorship
Following Twitter's recent footsteps, Google announced that it would also begin censoring content on a country-to-country basis. Wired first broke the story that Google will be implementing changes to Blogger that will allow blog posts to be blocked in individual countries....
ONI Blog: Protests in Belarus provoke Internet censorship, temporary outages
Protests have erupted in Belarus in response to immense inflation, political corruption, and media censorship; these protests have largely been organized online and, over the past few weeks, have resulted in increased Internet censorship.
In a country where government-regulated media...
- Posted on 15/Jul/2011; tagged in Belarus, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Intermediary Censorship, Take-down
ONI Blog: Italian Agency Presses On With Internet Filtering Powers
Despite protests, the Italian Communications Authority (AgCom) yesterday approved a draft regulation that would give it powers to take down websites and filter the Internet over alleged copyright infringement without prior judicial oversight. The draft will now enter a 60 day period...
ONI Blog: WikiLeaks: Reactions from the ONI Team
With WikiLeaks dominating the media over the past two weeks, a number of the OpenNet Initiative's principals and staffers have commented publicly on the implications of the leaks on the Internet.
ONI co-principal investigator and director of the Citizen Lab Ron Deibert took...
- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in Canada, Conflict and security filtering, Intermediary Censorship, ONI, Political filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada
