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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 17 Sep 2008
The promise of the internet is the free flow of information and ideas – at the touch of one’s fingertips. The appeal of that promise is obvious among Farsi speakers. In 2004, a survey found that Farsi was the fourth most popular language of bloggers on the internet. And internet usage in Iran has been steadily increasing. The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders calculates that in 2004 there were just over one million internet users inside Iran; today it says, that number has climbed to eighteen million.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 17 Sep 2008
(JPEG) Reporters Without Borders discovered today that access to its main website (http://www.rsf.org) has again been blocked within China. The site had been accessible since 1 August, a week before the start of the Olympic Games.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 16 Sep 2008
Women in Iran have learned to unleash the Internet’s potential to promote freedom. In the country that has, according to the OpenNet Initiative, experienced the most explosive online growth in the Middle East, the Internet has become a battleground between a repressive regime and the increasingly active feminists demanding the end of legal discrimination against women.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 16 Sep 2008
Sex offenders in the Thames Valley will be the first in the UK to have parental controls put on their computers.
The filtering software will be used to monitor the online activities of offenders convicted of internet related-crimes against children.
The trial will start in Buckinghamshire and, if successful, will be rolled out across the whole of the force area.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 16 Sep 2008
Tunisian blogger and journalist Ziad El Heni has filed a legal action against the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI), seeking damages sustained as a result of censorship. This is the first case of its kind against ATI since its creation in 1996 to manage the national internet backbone and provide internet services.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 15 Sep 2008
The video-sharing service YouTube is banning submissions that involve "inciting others to violence," following criticism from Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) that the site was too open to terrorist groups disseminating militant propaganda.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 12 Sep 2008
Terrorist training videos will be banned from appearing on YouTube, under revised new guidelines being implemented by the popular video-sharing site.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 12 Sep 2008
KUALA LUMPUR--The Malaysian government Thursday lifted its controversial directive to block access to political portal Malaysia Today but on Friday, police detained the Web site's founder and editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin under the country's internal security laws.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 12 Sep 2008
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 11 Sep 2008
THE federal Government's plan to implement content filters at the internet service provider level is one step closer to reality with live trials set to commence after next month.
The Government will seek expressions of interest in the second half of October for ISPs to participate in live trials, a spokesperson for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said.
The test and voluntary participation of ISPs are crucial to uncovering the true cost of the Rudd Labor government's internet filtering program.
