Political filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 26, 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 26/Aug/2011; tagged in China, Kazakhstan, Libya, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 19, 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 19/Aug/2011; tagged in China, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Argentina: Judge orders all ISPs to block the sites LeakyMails.com and Leakymails.blogspot.com
Crossposted from Global Voices Advocacy
Using the motto “Let’s stop lies and hypocrisy”, Leakymails.com was a project designed to obtain and publish relevant documents exposing corruption of the political...
ONI Blog: New Data Added to ONI's Social Media Filtering Map
The OpenNet Initiative is excited to announce the addition of a full year of new data to its Social Media Filtering Map. The map gives users a visual overview where of Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Twitter, and Youtube have been blocked since...
- Posted on 10/Aug/2011; tagged in Egypt, Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 5, 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 05/Aug/2011; tagged in United Kingdom, United States/Canada, Asia, Europe, Copyright, Cybercrime and security, Political filtering
ONI Blog: As Europe Responds to Norway Attacks, Calls for Internet Monitoring Emerge
Co-authored by Jane Abell.
Throughout Europe, calls for increased Internet surveillance have emerged in response to the July 22, 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway. Police and security forces hope that by keeping a closer eye on online activities, they will be able...
- Posted on 03/Aug/2011; tagged in Turkey, Germany, Europe, Legislation, Hate speech, Data retention, Political filtering
ONI Blog: New Internet Filtering in Pakistan
A new incident of Internet filtering has just been reported from Karachi.
According to user reports, Mobilink, one of the leading telecommunications companies in Pakistan, is now requiring that all users add proxy 10.215.2.32 port 3128 in order to browse the Internet....
ONI Blog: Rwanda blocks website of independent newspaper
Exactly one year after the murder of independent newspaper Umuvugizi’s deputy editor, the paper's website is again inaccessible in Rwanda. Its editor has just re-launched the paper as an online-only publication.
Last weekend, Umuvugizi went online with a re-launched version of...
ONI Blog: Chinese Censorship in Inner Mongolia Continues
Co-authored by Jane Abell.
In the wake of protests in a region of China known as Inner Mongolia, the Chinese government has begun censoring the search term “Inner Mongolia” on various microblogging and social networking websites, as well as blocking access to...
- Posted on 10/Jun/2011; tagged in China, Asia, Surveillance, Geolocational Filtering, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Nigerian govt. shuts down Internet and mobile networks during presidential inauguration
Multiple Nigerian newspapers and Twitter users are reporting that Internet and mobile networks were inaccessible for 12 hours in Abuja during President Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration on Sunday, May 29.
Sam Nda-Isaiah of the Abuja-based daily newspaper Leadership writes:
The state security forces virtually...