Iran

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 6, 2012

Iran's parliament has recently proposed to implement stricter controls over the Internet, including placing blog posts, comments, and text messages under the same surveillance as mainstream media. In attempts to create a "national" and "clean" Internet, the Iranian government is acting...

- Posted on 06/Jan/2012; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Legislation, Copyright, Surveillance, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering

ONI Blog: New Canada Centre Report Tracks Challenges of Censored Internet for Global Broadcasters

An international research team based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs has released a detailed report that tracks and analyzes the difficulties of broadcasting the news...

- Posted on 11/Oct/2011; tagged in China, Iran, Publications, Political filtering

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: September 16, 2011

Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...

- Posted on 16/Sep/2011; tagged in Burma, Iran, Thailand, Algeria, United Kingdom, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: September 9, 2011

- Posted on 09/Sep/2011; tagged in China, Iran, South Korea, Russia, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Data retention, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net

ONI Blog: Iran Ramps Up Internet Control

Iran has ramped up its measures of control on Internet content. Most recently, Iran blocked the rapidly expanding newcomer to the social networking scene, Google+, accusing it of being a US spy tool. This rhetoric is not new for the Iranian...

- Posted on 22/Jul/2011; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Geolocational Filtering, Social filtering, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: Shadows, Suitcases, and Circumvention: U.S. Plans a Mesh Network Shadow Internet in Repressive Regimes

Disclosure: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society participated in a competitive bidding process for State Department funding related to online freedom of expression. The Obama administration is leading a State Department-funded initiative to deploy a "shadow Internet" and mobile network in...

- Posted on 29/Jun/2011; tagged in China, Iran, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 17th, 2011

- Posted on 17/Jun/2011; tagged in Canada, Iran, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Turkey, Qatar, United States/Canada, Asia, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Circumvention, Cybercrime and security, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: Protests mark the second anniversary of the "Twitter Revolution" in Iran

According to The Wall Street Journal, approximately 15,000 people gathered in Tehran on Sunday to commemorate the second anniversary of the the disputed presidential election of 2009, which led to the Iranian election protests and the so-called ...

- Posted on 15/Jun/2011; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Human rights, Elections

ONI Blog: Iran Ranked as World’s Worst Internet Oppressor

Iran has been dubbed the "least free" country in terms of internet freedom in a new report titled, "Freedom on the Net 2011: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media." The report, published by American NGO Freedom House, calculated Iran to...

- Posted on 28/Apr/2011; tagged in Iran, Arrests and legal action

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...