Legislation
ONI Blog: Europeans Protest ACTA as More Countries Sign Treaty
After the Polish government announced that it would support the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, protests—both online and off—erupted in Poland. Last Friday, The Washington Post reported that members of the leftist party Palikot's Movement protested the move toward ACTA by wearing...
ONI Blog: Russian Communication Minister Criticizes SOPA
Russian communication minister Igor Shchyogolev recently published an op-ed piece in Russian newspaper Vedomosti that condemns the SOPA bill as a censorship tool. Shchyogolev critiqued the business impacts of proposal, saying, "It is impossible to block and censor the...
ONI Blog: Polish Websites Attacked After Government Signs ACTA
While United States Congressional members have been experiencing uproar with the SOPA/PIPA controversy, Poland's gotten into its own legislative crisis regarding a different Internet censorship bill. Immediately following the government's announcement of its planned signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, several public...
- Posted on 24/Jan/2012; tagged in Europe, Legislation
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: India Threatens to "Pull a China" and Block Social Networking Sites
China is well known as a leader in online censorship, but no other government has explicitly referenced the country as an example to follow—until now. Last Thursday, Delhi's High Court ordered Facebook and Google India to remove all "objectionable and offensive" material...
ONI Blog: SOPA/PIPA Update: Calling for Voting Cancellation, House Hypocrisy, and a Wikipedia Blackout
Last week has been intensely eventful for those keeping up with the ongoing and unfolding drama concerning the SOPA/PIPA proposals. On Friday, six senators wrote a collective letter to majority leader Harry Reid asking him to cancel the Senate's vote on...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 13, 2012
Members of the NetCoalition trade association are considering shutting down in protest of the SOPA bill that's about to be voted on in Congress. Companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been discussing the possibility of conducting a mass Internet...
- Posted on 13/Jan/2012; tagged in Asia, India, Iran, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Surveillance, Take-down, Threats to the Open Net, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 6, 2012
Iran's parliament has recently proposed to implement stricter controls over the Internet, including placing blog posts, comments, and text messages under the same surveillance as mainstream media. In attempts to create a "national" and "clean" Internet, the Iranian government is acting...
- Posted on 06/Jan/2012; tagged in Copyright, Europe, Iran, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Surveillance, Threats to the Open Net, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Anonymous Threatens U.S. Government Over Potential Internet Censorship
Receiving multiple criticisms from all sides of the blogosphere and online news media, SOPA got a new enemy last week as Anonymous hacker group threatened the U.S. government to stop what they see as an attempt to censor the Internet. A...
ONI Blog: Internet Companies Place Anti-SOPA Ad in New York Times
Usually heated competitors in Silicon Valley, Google and Facebook have joined forces to combat legislation that many have claimed to be "the end of the Internet." The two companies, along with other huge tech companies ranging from eBay to AOL, ...
