Saudi Arabia
ONI Blog: Blocked or Not Blocked? Lessons from an Intriguing “Filtering” Instance
Determining whether a Web site is blocked by a state filtering regime is sometimes a complicated issue that goes beyond finding out whether the site is simply accessible or inaccessible, and requires a multi-disciplinary approach, which ONI has been uniquely employing in...
- Posted on 30/Apr/2010; tagged in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Bahrain, Tunisia Filtering Individual Twitter Pages
Over the past few weeks, reports have trickled in to Herdict and via Twitter, alerting us of the filtering of individual Twitter pages in Tunisia and Bahrain (as well as, possibly, China). In Tunisia, the accounts of exiled activist Sami...
- Posted on 04/Jan/2010; tagged in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Social filtering
Report: Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia in 2006-2007
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Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Saudi Arabia.
Overview
Saudi Arabia has filtered the Internet since its introduction into the kingdom less than a decade ago. The filtering regime most extensively covers religious and...
ONI Blog: The Worst Places to be a Blogger
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released a list of the ten worst countries in which to blog. Topping the list is Burma, followed closely by Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt.
In determining...
- Posted on 30/Apr/2009; tagged in Burma, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Syria, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Human rights
ONI Blog: Restriction on Internet use in the Middle East on the rise: Internet cafés in Saudi must install hidden cameras
In addition to technical filtering and surveillance practices, more countries in the Middle East impose restrictions on Internet use in cyber cafés. The latest example comes from Saudi Arabia where Internet cafés have been ordered by the Ministry of Interior to install...
- Posted on 16/Apr/2009; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: Herdict Launches Arabic Site; Saudi Arabia Reports
Herdict Web, the proud child of ONI, has just launched its new Arabic user interface. In the past 24 hours since the launch, the Herdict team has been thrilled to note a high number of reports coming from the...
- Posted on 09/Apr/2009; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Internet Censorship in Saudi
Saudi Arabia has one of the most restrictive Internet filters in the world, yet according to BusinessWeek news reports, the Saudi censorship regime is vastly unlike that of most countries. Employing a mere twenty-five people, the country’s Communication and...
- Posted on 30/Nov/2008; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Surveillance, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Saudi journalist to Western journalists in Beijing on Internet filtering: “quit your belly aching”
Saudi journalist Molouk Y. Ba-Isa wrote an interesting article in Saudi Arabia’s principal English daily (Arab News) in which she reminds the Western journalists covering the 2008 Olympics in Beijing that censorship for people like her in countries such as Saudi...
- Posted on 14/Aug/2008; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: In the News: Hints of Net Liberalization in Certain Spaces, Increased Clamps in Others
On top of all the excitement at WSIS, there have been some recent articles examining freedom of information on the Net in the Arab world and beyond.
The UAE has recently legalized VOIP, the technology that enables Internet telephony.
Arab...
- Posted on 15/Nov/2005; tagged in Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: The Market for Unfiltered Internet Access
Foreign Policy writes about the market for access to blocked Web sites in states that filter the Internet. The piece relies on ONI's Saudi Arabia research and quotes principal investigator Ron Deibert....
- Posted on 22/Mar/2005; tagged in Saudi Arabia
