Jordan
Country Profile: Jordan
Background
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a constitutional monarchy in which executive and legislative authority is primarily vested in the king, who is supported by a bicameral parliament.U.S. Department of State, “County Report on Human Rights Practices 2007,” March 11, 2008, http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100598.htm....
- Posted on 06/Aug/2009; tagged in Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
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 Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, 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, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
Report: Sex, Social Mores, and Keyword Filtering: Microsoft Bing in the "Arabian Countries"
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Overview
Microsoft recently added a new layer of complexity to the ongoing debate regarding the filtering and censorship practices of U.S. search engines via its own search engine, Bing. ONI testing reveals liberal...
- Posted on 04/Mar/2010; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Search result removal, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Jordan to Apply Press Law to Digital Content
Jordan has long stood out as a beacon in a region of heavy Internet filtering. Bordered by--among others--Syria and Saudi Arabia, two of the Middle East's worst offenders, Jordan has filtered only one Web site, arabtimes.com, for the past decade.
That...
- Posted on 15/Jan/2010; tagged in Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Political filtering, Social filtering
Report: Internet Filtering in Jordan in 2006-2007
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Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Jordan.
Overview
Access to Internet content in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan remains largely unfettered, with filtering selectively applied to only a small number of sites. However, media laws...
ONI Blog: Testing for Internet filtering during parliamentary elections in Jordan
ONI found no evidence of Internet tampering in Jordan during the November 20 parliamentary elections despite claims by the main opposition party that the polls were marred by vote-rigging and electoral fraud. ONI, through in-country testers, monitored online activities and accessibility...
- Posted on 25/Nov/2007; tagged in Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Elections
ONI Blog: LA Times: Jordan scholar imprisoned for e-mails
A Jordanian scholar has been held in prison since May 2007 for violating Jordan's e-mail laws, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 62-year-old former parliamentarian "wrote e-mails decrying alleged corruption and human rights violations in Jordan to officials and newspapers," the...
- Posted on 15/Aug/2007; tagged in Jordan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
