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ONI Blog: OpenNet Initiative Access Book Series Collected Online
The OpenNet Initiative is pleased to announce that all three of our edited volumes—Access Denied, Access Controlled, and the newly released Access Contested—are now collected together online.
The Access series represents three edited volumes published by the OpenNet Initiative and MIT...
- Posted on 20/Dec/2011; tagged in ONI, Publications
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
ONI Blog: ONI Summarized Global Internet Filtering Data Now Available for Download
The OpenNet Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of our summarized global Internet filtering data as a downloadable CSV file under a Creative Commons license. The data provides an overview of the most recent ONI ratings of the breadth and depth...
- Posted on 03/Nov/2011; tagged in ONI
ONI Blog: New Data Added to ONI's Social Media Filtering Map
The OpenNet Initiative is excited to announce the addition of a full year of new data to its Social Media Filtering Map. The map gives users a visual overview where of Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Twitter, and Youtube have been blocked since...
- Posted on 10/Aug/2011; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tunisia
ONI Blog: Yet Another LiveJournal Outage Causes Concern for Russian Blogging Community
Last week, the Russian language segment of the popular blogging platform LiveJournal experienced a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that brought down service for much of the week. This was the third such attack on the...
- Posted on 04/Aug/2011; tagged in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), ONI, Russia, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: New Data Added to ONI’s Global Timeline of YouTube Censorship
The OpenNet Initiative is excited to announce the addition of a full year of new data to its YouTube social media filtering timeline. "YouTube Censored: a Recent History" allows users to access a detailed visual account of when and where YouTube...
- Posted on 21/Jul/2011; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Social filtering, Syria, Tunisia, United Kingdom
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Afghanistan, Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Copyright, Cuba, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, India, Indonesia, IP blocking, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latin America, Lebanon, Legislation, Mexico, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Nigeria, ONI, Pakistan, Political filtering, Rwanda, Social filtering, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Take-down, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, United States/Canada, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
ONI Blog: Egypt’s Internet Blackout: Extreme Example of Just-in-time Blocking
In a nearly unprecedented move, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered all Internet service providers to shut off connectivity. As of 1:00 am Cairo time on Friday, January 28 — a day of planned demonstrations — reports began to circulate...
- Posted on 28/Jan/2011; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI
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
ONI Blog: Access Controlled Named Among Top 10 Info-Tech Policy Books of 2010
The Technology Liberation Front's Adam Thierer named Access Controlled among the top 10 most important info-tech policy books of 2010 in a blog post published today. He writes:
Smartly organized and edited, Access Controlled is essential reading for anyone interested in...
- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in ONI, Publications
