Syria
ONI Blog: Syria goes mostly offline as protests intensify
Renesys is reporting that as of 3:35 UTC (6:35 local time) on Friday, June 3, the majority of Syrian networks were disconnected from the global Internet. A graph shows the dramatic drop in reachable networks:
Renesys documented...
- Posted on 03/Jun/2011; tagged in Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: New Report on Pro-Government Hackers in the Middle East
The OpenNet Initiative is pleased to share a report authored by Helmi Noman on the rise of the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-government computer hackers that are actively targeting political opposition and Western websites:
Since the beginning of the popular uprisings...
- Posted on 31/May/2011; tagged in Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Report: The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks in the Middle East: The Case of the Syrian Electronic Army
Authored by Helmi Noman.
Noman is a Senior Researcher at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto), and a Research Affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Crossposted from the InfoWar Monitor.
Introduction
Since the...
- Posted on 31/May/2011; tagged in Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: May 13, 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,...
ONI Blog: Syrian government newspaper accuses Facebook of conspiring against the country
Syrian government-run al-Thawar newspaper has accused Facebook’s administration of conspiring against the Syrian people. The paper has also announced that pro-regime Syrian programmers are currently preparing a surprise for Facebook.
The paper said in an unsigned editorial [AR] on May...
- Posted on 11/May/2011; tagged in Syria, 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
ONI Blog: Syrian Telecom Minister: The answer is raising awareness, not censorship
According to Sada Souria, Syrian Telecom Minister, Imad Saboni, said in a recent lecture at Tishreen University that he personally believes that “effectively raising awareness of the dangers of the internet is the answer, not blocking websites.” Saboni alluded...
- Posted on 08/Dec/2010; tagged in Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Political filtering, Social filtering
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
Report: Internet Filtering in Syria in 2006-2007
PDF Version
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Syria.
Overview
In addition to filtering a range of Web content, the Syrian government monitors Internet use closely and has detained citizens “for expressing their opinions or reporting information...
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
