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  • After the Green Movement: Internet Controls in Iran, 2009-2012
    By: Irene Poetranto
    Date: 15 Feb 2013
    Categories: Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Elections, Political filtering, Internet tools filtering
    This report details Iran’s increasing Internet controls since 2009, when protests against the victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad rocked the country.
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  • Update on information controls in Ethiopia
    By: Irene Poetranto
    Date: 01 Nov 2012
    Categories: Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Internet tools filtering
    Ethiopia remains a dangerous country in which to express dissent online. The recent conviction of a number of bloggers and journalists, combined with the country’s history of filtering critical political content online, demonstrates the restrictive nature of the country’s information environment. This blog post describes recent developments in the country and reports on the results of OpenNet Initiative testing conducted in September 2012.
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  • Update on information controls in Burma
    By: Irene Poetranto
    Date: 23 Oct 2012
    Categories: Burma, Asia, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Internet tools filtering
    After years spent as one of the world’s most strictly controlled information environments, the government of Burma has recently begun to open up access to previously censored online content. Recent OpenNet Initiative testing has confirmed these changes, finding a variety of opposition websites, critical blogs and foreign news sites to be accessible after years of blocking. This ONI blog post discusses recent developments in Burma and reports on the results of testing conducted in Burma in August 2012.
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  • Update on threats to freedom of expression online in Vietnam
    By: Irene Poetranto
    Date: 10 Sep 2012
    Categories: Vietnam, Asia, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering
    Online freedom of expression continues to be threatened in Vietnam, as recently proposed regulations and the ongoing detainment and harassment of bloggers combine with an already strict regime of Internet filtering to further restrict information openness. This OpenNet Initiative blog post describes these new developments and reports on the results of testing conducted in Vietnam from April to August 2012.
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  • Behind Blue Coat: Investigations of commercial filtering in Syria and Burma
    By: Irene Poetranto
    Date: 09 Nov 2011
    Categories: Burma, Syria, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Surveillance, Publications, ONI, Filtering tech and software
    Citizen Lab research into the use of commercial filtering products in countries under the rule of authoritarian regimes has uncovered a number of devices manufactured by U.S.-based Blue Coat Systems in Syria and Burma.
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