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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 Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Cybercrime and security, DNS tampering, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Latin America, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, ONI, Overblocking, Political filtering, Proxy blocking, Publications, Reverse filtering, Search result removal, Social filtering, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States/Canada, Voluntary filtering -
ONI Blog: UN Security Forces Removal of ONI Poster
Whilst attending the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the OpenNet Initiative (along with partners of ONI Asia) gathered to present their upcoming book, Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. A poster advertising the...
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has released updated reports on Ethiopia and Zimbabwe and new reports on Uganda and Nigeria, where ONI tested for the first time in 2008 and 2009. All four profiles can be accessed at: http://opennet.net/research/regions/ssafrica.
Many governments across sub-Saharan...
- Posted on 01/Oct/2009; tagged in Conflict and security filtering, Ethiopia, Filtering tech and software, Nigeria, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe -
When ONI released its Middle East and North Africa reports, an avid reader quickly submitted an article to Slashdot noting the government of Yemen's use of Websense filtering software, as reported in our 2009 Yemen country profile.
Websense, a U.S.-based company,...
- Posted on 12/Aug/2009; tagged in Filtering tech and software, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Yemen -
New research from the OpenNet Initiative reveals accelerating restrictions on Internet content as Asian governments shift to next generation controls. These new techniques go beyond blocking access to websites and are more informal and fluid, implemented at edges of the network, and...
- Posted on 16/Jun/2009; tagged in Asia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Conflict and security filtering, India, Indonesia, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Non-filtering content restrictions, North Korea, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Singapore, Social filtering, South Korea, Surveillance, Thailand, Vietnam, Voluntary filtering -
ONI Blog: Baidu's List of Censored Search Terms
China’s New Tang Dynasty Television has obtained a list of the words censored by Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine, according to reports in The Epoch Times.
The list contains thirteen categories of politically sensitive words, including those related to...
Iranians regained access to Facebook and Twitter following a one-day government-imposed ban last week, CNN News reports. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated that he had not called for the ban, adding that he believes “in maximum freedom of expression.”
The...
- Posted on 01/Jun/2009; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering -
ONI Blog: UAE: An Expanding Censorship Regime?
Dubai police are pursuing a plan to censor upwards of 500 search terms deemed offensive in an effort to block access to certain websites, AME Info reports. Though no progress has yet been made, according to Lieutenant General...
- Posted on 31/May/2009; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, United Arab Emirates -
ONI Blog: German Police Shut Down Wikileaks Domain
According to The Inquirer, German police have raided the offices of WikiLeaks.de, a website that publishes leaks of government documents, transferring control of the domain to German authorities and shutting down the website.
This move was triggered by WikiLeaks’ publication...
ONI Blog: Technology Executives Visit Iraq
According to BBC News reports, top executives from major Internet companies including Google, YouTube, Twitter, Howcast, and Meetup visited Iraq last week in order to assess how their technologies might assist in the ongoing fight against corruption.
The companies will...
- Posted on 27/Apr/2009; tagged in Filtering tech and software, Iraq, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI -
