Overblocking
ONI Blog: SonicWALL Filters Harmless Sites
It is the right of private companies to block access to certain sites for their employees or customers, certainly. But in the United States, some customers of Panera Bread, a popular nationwide chain restaurant that offers free wifi, are frustrated. ...
- Posted on 04/Feb/2009; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Overblocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Australian Goverment Releases Paper Detailing Filtering Pilot
Ban.This.URL, a blog documenting and examining online censorship in Australia, reports that Australia's The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released a paper detailing the technical specifications of Australia's proposed Internet filtering plan.
In the paper...
- Posted on 17/Dec/2008; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Obscenity, Social filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: UK Blocks Access to Wikipedia Entry on Controversial Scorpions Album
On Monday, December 8, it was reported that a number of UK Internet service providers have decided to block access to a controversial Wikipedia entry showing an image of a naked girl. The ISPs acted after online watchdog the Internet...
- Posted on 09/Dec/2008; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Obscenity, Social filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: Australia's Slippery Slope
With all of the news lately regarding Australia's Internet filtering scheme, one might think Australia were the first or only country to ever filter the Internet.
Since the filter was announced in 2007, it has been widely criticized. First, Australia announced...
ONI Blog: Adiós Diego: Argentine judges cleanse the Internet
By: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Christopher Soghoian
Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of country's most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina...
- Posted on 11/Nov/2008; tagged in Argentina, Latin America, Defamation, Take-down, Search result removal, Political filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: Turkey's Capricious Filtering - Just Too Easy
Turkey has made headlines lately for its capricious filtering; although previous incidents involved filtering sites which insulted Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" in general, lately, the filtering seems nearly impulsive.
A site entitled List of websites blocked by Turkish Telecom...or how Turkey disgraces...
- Posted on 07/Nov/2008; tagged in Turkey, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Social filtering, Overblocking, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Wireless: you might not have to pay for it, but it won't be free, says FCC
Earlier this month, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released a report , addressing their efforts to build broadband access. So far, recent efforts have centered around auctioning off portions of the wireless spectrum, and some with the requirement that the...
- Posted on 25/Jun/2008; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Internet tools filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: A Blind-date with the Censors in UAE
Western software companies continue to make key decisions about what is acceptable speech in numerous countries around the world by compiling the lists of web sites that fall into potentially undesirable categories, such as provocative content and hate speech.
Livejournal.com, a free service...
- Posted on 20/Jun/2008; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Overblocking
