Latin America
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: May 4, 2012
Freedom House came out with its 2012 survey on the freedom of the press around the world. Media gains happened in the Middle East and Northern Africa as Arab Spring stimulated a significant amount of social media activity. However, press freedom...
- Posted on 03/May/2012; tagged in United Kingdom, Gaza and the West Bank, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: CPJ Ranks Ten Most Censored Countries
In preparation for World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists published its findings on the most censored countries in the world. The top three countries with the most press restrictions and least access to media information were revealed to...
- Posted on 03/May/2012; tagged in Belarus, Burma, Cuba, Guinea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Syria, Guinea, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Legislation, Circumvention, Surveillance, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: November 11, 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 11/Nov/2011; tagged in Brazil, China, Egypt, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Latin America, Legislation, Copyright, Surveillance, Threats to the Open Net, Political 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: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: Week of 12/6/2010
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative will provide a weekly roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") on our blog, in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for the entire blog or...
- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in China, Iran, Venezuela, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Latin America, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Internet Filtering in Latin America
When we look at Internet filtering globally, Latin America doesn't stand out as an example; across the region, precious few countries engage in government-level filtering. Rather, as blogger David Sasaki points out, freedom of expression is limited in a variety of...
- Posted on 02/Nov/2010; tagged in Latin America, Political filtering, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Honduras: one year after the military coup, press freedom remains under siege
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the military coup d’état that drove now former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power. Since January of 2010, eight journalists have been assassinated, making Honduras the most dangerous country for journalists working in Latin America,...
- Posted on 29/Jun/2010; tagged in Latin America, Human rights
ONI Blog: Censorship by Venezuela’s largest ISP
Global Voices author Marianne Díaz reported that quelacreo (NSFW), a site that features photographs and video of violent sex crimes, was censored by CANTV, the government-controlled ISP that provides Internet service to over three quarters of the national population.
In...
ONI Blog: Mexico: #Cananea censored?
Last Sunday night, nearly two thousand federal police forces in the northern state of Sonora forcibly ended a workers’ strike, evacuating members of the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union from outside of the Cananea copper mines, where they had been picketing...
