Social filtering
ONI Blog: Three Easy Steps to Block Sites in Turkey
In a clear instance of vexatious litigation, a Turkish court has blocked the Web site of prominent evolutionist Richard Dawkins following complaints from Islamic creationist and author Adnan Oktar. Oktar, who writes under the nom de plume Harun Yahya, filed...
- Posted on 25/Sep/2008; tagged in Turkey, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Defamation, Take-down, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Speaking Out in Malaysia
The arrest of blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act on September 12, just as his website Malaysia Today (http://mt.m2day.org/) was reported to be unblocked, provides an ominous reminder that there may be more effective ways of silencing...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2008; tagged in Malaysia, Asia, Arrests and legal action, Publications, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Tunisian journalist sues government agency for blocking Facebook, claims damage for the use of 404 error message instead of 403
Tunisian journalist and blogger Zied El-Hen filed a suit this week in a Tunisian court against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking Web site Facebook, according to a report by Reuters (Arabic). The journalist...
- Posted on 12/Sep/2008; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Saudi journalist to Western journalists in Beijing on Internet filtering: “quit your belly aching”
Saudi journalist Molouk Y. Ba-Isa wrote an interesting article in Saudi Arabia’s principal English daily (Arab News) in which she reminds the Western journalists covering the 2008 Olympics in Beijing that censorship for people like her in countries such as Saudi...
- Posted on 14/Aug/2008; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Sudan blocks youtube: Is it political or social?
Sudan blocked access to the video sharing Web site youtube last week without giving any explanation. Users who attempt to access the site receive the standard blockpage which says, “Sorry this page has been blocked by [the] National Telecommunication Corporation”.
While it is...
- Posted on 28/Jul/2008; tagged in Sudan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering
