Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: United Arab Emirates Arrests Activists, Bans BlackBerry Services
On July 29th, Reporters Sans Frontiers reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested one BlackBerry user, detained another, and are pursuing five activists. The activists were planning a protest via BlackBerry Messenger against the increasing price of gasoline, and, unable...
- Posted on 01/Aug/2010; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Privacy, Conflict and security filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Would Censoring the Internet Prevent Cyber-Bullying?
Playing out in the Internet tabloids this week is the story of Jessi Slaughter, an eleven-year-old girl whose YouTube rants have resulted in death threats and unsavory rumors in a classic case of cyber-bullying.
In Australia, where a proposal to filter the...
- Posted on 20/Jul/2010; tagged in United States of America, Australia, United States/Canada, Australia/New Zealand, Obscenity, Defamation, Hate speech, Cybercrime and security, Social filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Cuba and Venezuela connect through socialism, fiber optic cable
Telecommunications workers began sounding tests along Cuba’s southeastern coastline last week, marking the first phase of plans to lay a submarine fiber optic cable connecting Venezuela, Cuba, and Jamaica.
If successful, Cuban news site Cubadebate reports that the cable’s 640 gigabytes would...
ONI Blog: Vietnam's New Green Dam?
Vietnam is continuing its steep fall down a slippery slope of Internet censorship and filtration and is raising more concerns over its new cyber-technology implementation.
Internet censorship is nothing new to Vietnam, yet its policies have remained very much out...
- Posted on 08/Jun/2010; tagged in Vietnam, Asia, Surveillance, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review: Filtering, Surveillance, Information Warfare
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to release its 2009 Year in Review, a look into instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the world in 2009.
The events of 2009 demonstrated a global rise in third-generation Internet controls. ...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2010; tagged in 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, Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, Search result removal, Human rights, Cybercrime and security, Publications, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Reverse filtering, Overblocking, DNS tampering, IP blocking, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Australian Activists Fight Filter on Twitter
As celebrated today on iTWire, Australian and international activists are fighting Australia's impending filtering policy on Twitter. Users opposing the filter are using the hashtag #nocleanfeed to disseminate information, and to fight against the filter. One such user,...
- Posted on 15/Dec/2009; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: The OpenNet Initiative Presents New Findings in Africa
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has released updated reports on Ethiopia and Zimbabwe and new reports on Uganda and Nigeria, where ONI tested for the first time in 2008 and 2009. All four profiles can be accessed at: http://opennet.net/research/regions/ssafrica.
Many governments across sub-Saharan...
- Posted on 01/Oct/2009; tagged in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa, Publications, ONI, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Overblocking in Oman
The OpenNet Initiative recently released new profiles for a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, including updates of previously researched countries.
In one such country, Oman, our research found there to be significant social filtering, as well as...
- Posted on 08/Sep/2009; tagged in Oman, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering, Overblocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Websense Bars Yemen's Government from Further Software Updates
When ONI released its Middle East and North Africa reports, an avid reader quickly submitted an article to Slashdot noting the government of Yemen's use of Websense filtering software, as reported in our 2009 Yemen country profile.
Websense, a U.S.-based company,...
- Posted on 12/Aug/2009; tagged in Yemen, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: U.S. software company says China stole Green Dam code
A California-based software company has accused a Chinese company of lifting parts of the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software directly from its own CyberSitter program.
Solid Oak Software Inc. claims that parts of the Green Dam code, including...
- Posted on 15/Jun/2009; tagged in China, United States of America, United States/Canada, Asia, Copyright, Filtering tech and software
