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Saudi Arabia's Culture and Information Industry recently announced they would begin requiring registered licenses for those who wish to publish on websites, stimulating negative responses from the Saudi blogging community.
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After years of pervasive filtering, Tunisia has shut off its censors...but will it last?
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As heavy censorship continues in Tunisia, a group of hackers takes protest into their own hands, implementing a series of DDoS attacks on government websites in the country.
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British Communications Minister Ed Vaizey will begin discussions with ISPs to filter pornography on the Internet in a claimed attempt to provide more protection against adult content for minors. But critics fear that this will grant the government more power to censor the Internet in the future.
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In this week's roundup...a profile of Tor, no censorship for Malaysia, the UN mulls over tighter Internet regulations, and more...
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As WikiLeaks dominates the media, members of the ONI team have shared their thoughts. Read more from PIs John Palfrey, Jonathan Zittrain, and Ron Deibert, as well as thoughts from ONI staffers.
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Categories: 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
In this week's roundup...A blogger released, Chinese high-level hackers, Venezuela's regulation of the 'Net, and more...
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The Technology Liberation Front named Access Controlled among its top 10 most important info-tech policy books of 2010.
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In the wake of WikiLeaks' latest release, a number of companies have denied service to the whistleblowing organization. Despite a public statement from Twitter, rumors of manual interference in their 'trending topics' abound. Devin Gaffney explains.
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Syria's telecom minister remains unconvinced of the benefits of Internet filtering, despite state policy, reports Anas Qtiesh.
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What do private companies Amazon, EveryDNS, PayPal and Tableau Software have in common with the governments of China and Thailand? In the past week, all have blocked access or refused support to Wikileaks in some way.
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In this week's roundup: U.S. government seizes 82 domains, Facebook deactivates the accounts of pro-democracy groups in Egypt, Amazon pulls Wikileaks, and more...
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Saudi Arabia "defriended" and "refriended" Facebook for several hours this past Saturday. Officials claim moral reasons as the reason and are quoted to say that the site "crossed a line" with the country's conservative slant.
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Eric Schmidt of Google recently criticized the Chinese government for their censorship policies at an event by the Council on Foreign Relations held in New York. With his prediction that filtering the Internet in China will ultimately fail, Schmidt draws attention to another Google-related controversy this year concerning Google's relationships with domestic governments.
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A group of more than 75 law school professors wrote a letter to President Obama this past week calling for increased transparency regarding ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The talks, which have been in progress since June 2008, aim to establish an international framework that improves the enforcement of existing intellectual property right laws by creating improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property.
After years of pervasive filtering, Tunisia has shut off its censors...but will it last?
As heavy censorship continues in Tunisia, a group of hackers takes protest into their own hands, implementing a series of DDoS attacks on government websites in the country.
In this week's roundup...a profile of Tor, no censorship for Malaysia, the UN mulls over tighter Internet regulations, and more...
As WikiLeaks dominates the media, members of the ONI team have shared their thoughts. Read more from PIs John Palfrey, Jonathan Zittrain, and Ron Deibert, as well as thoughts from ONI staffers.
In this week's roundup...A blogger released, Chinese high-level hackers, Venezuela's regulation of the 'Net, and more...
In the wake of WikiLeaks' latest release, a number of companies have denied service to the whistleblowing organization. Despite a public statement from Twitter, rumors of manual interference in their 'trending topics' abound. Devin Gaffney explains.
Syria's telecom minister remains unconvinced of the benefits of Internet filtering, despite state policy, reports Anas Qtiesh.
In this week's roundup: U.S. government seizes 82 domains, Facebook deactivates the accounts of pro-democracy groups in Egypt, Amazon pulls Wikileaks, and more...
