Non-filtering content restrictions

ONI Blog: Saudi Arabia to impose restrictions on online content production, including on YouTube

The chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Commission for Audiovisual Media, Dr. Riyad Najm, said his commission will start putting restrictions on content produced online, including on YouTube. He said Saudis wishing to post content to YouTube will have to get a license...

- Posted on 03/Dec/2013; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Social filtering

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: September 2, 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 02/Sep/2011; tagged in China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Privacy, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 12, 2011

- Posted on 12/Aug/2011; tagged in Turkey, Russia, United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Privacy

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: Week of 12/6/2010

Every week, the OpenNet Initiative will provide a weekly roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") on our blog, in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for the entire blog or...

- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in China, Iran, Venezuela, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Latin America, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action, Threats to the Open Net

ONI Blog: Major U.S. Networks Block Google TV

Although Sony recently released new TV models with Google TV built-in, the new technology that merges channel and web browsing may not as big as Google hoped it would. Recently, ABC, NBC, and CBS have all reported that they are...

- Posted on 23/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Non-filtering content restrictions, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: New Report from ONI: "Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere"

The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of a paper on content regulation and account deactivations across five popular social media platforms, titled "Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere." The paper, authored by ONI project coordinator Jillian York, explores various...

- Posted on 27/Sep/2010; tagged in Non-filtering content restrictions, Publications

ONI Blog: Chinese Plans To Deanonymize The Internet

Despite the press attention being thrown at the China/Google relationship, there has been another issue in China brewing a little more subtly in the background that may cause further open access issues in a nation already struggling with Internet freedom. News stories...

- Posted on 22/Jul/2010; tagged in China, Asia, Non-filtering content restrictions, ONI, Social filtering

ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review: Filtering, Surveillance, Information Warfare

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 United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, Search result removal, Human rights, Cybercrime and security, Publications, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Reverse filtering, Overblocking, DNS tampering, IP blocking, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: Google's China Decision Could Have Far-Reaching Implications

It has now been four years since Google announced its intent to censor search results in China. In January of 2006, after finding Google.com to be down about 10% of the time, Google made the now infamous decision to start...

- Posted on 13/Jan/2010; tagged in China, United States of America, Asia, Non-filtering content restrictions

ONI Blog: Venezuela Aims to Crack Down on "Media Crimes"

In ONI's in-depth 2007 study of Internet filtering and controls in Venezuela, we declared Internet use to be "not subject to extensive content restrictions" but remarked upon concerns that the "Chávez administration could institute Internet filtering in the near future." It would...

- Posted on 06/Aug/2009; tagged in Venezuela, Latin America, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action