Social filtering
ONI Blog: Syria blocks personal blog of human rights activist
This article was originally posted on Global Voices Advocacy by Sami Ben Gharbia
Syrian authorities have blocked access to the personal blog of the 26-year-old Syrian Human rights activist and blogger Mohammad Al-Abdallah who is blogging at Raye7wmishRaj3 (I’m...
ONI Blog: China's latest Internet crackdown
This blog post was originally posted at Rebecca MacKinnon's blog, RConversation, and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
Seven different government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security and the State Council Information Office declared war on Internet...
ONI Blog: UK: Evaluating Internet Content Regulations
According to the BBC, the UK government is evaluating a number of new Internet safeguards to protect children from content perceived as harmful or offensive.
The UK’s Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, who is spearheading the initiative calling for film-style age...
- Posted on 30/Dec/2008; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Non-filtering content restrictions, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering
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: IWF Removes Wikipedia Blacklisting in UK
Shortly after we blogged about the blocking of the Wikipedia page for heavy metal band Scorpions' album "Virgin Killer," it was announced that the England-based Internet Watch Foundation had removed the Wikipedia page from their child pornography watchlist.
An unfortunate side-effect...
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: Internet Censorship in Saudi
Saudi Arabia has one of the most restrictive Internet filters in the world, yet according to BusinessWeek news reports, the Saudi censorship regime is vastly unlike that of most countries. Employing a mere twenty-five people, the country’s Communication and...
- Posted on 30/Nov/2008; tagged in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Surveillance, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering
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: Users' initiatives to block Web sites
An Arabic Web site called Ehjeb (Arabic for the verb "to block") is becoming increasingly popular especially in Web forums. The site, still in beta version, offers to facilitate blocking of web sites by sending URLs of questionable Web sites...
- Posted on 24/Oct/2008; tagged in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: The Pirate Bay Back Online in Italy!
Good news for The Pirate Bay today: An Italian court has deemed a prior block on the site's torrent tracker is unlawful, and the site is accessible once again.
In August, we blogged that a ban in Italy on The Pirate Bay...
