Circumvention

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 17th, 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,...
ONI Blog: Amazon’s Kindle Bypasses the Great Firewall of China
The South China Morning Post recently reported that Kindle users can access banned websites in mainland China from the device. With Amazon’s electronic book gadget, Kindle users can now visit Facebook and Twitter, both currently blocked by the Chinese government....
ONI Blog: Egypt Bans Pornography Web sites
An Egyptian court has recently banned pornography Web sites, labeling them "venomous and vile," according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Egypt, which strictly bans offline pornography, already has a regulation which requires Internet cafe users to sign a form saying...
ONI Blog: Iran and Web Proxies
Iran’s Internet censorship regime is generally accepted to be one of the most aggressive in the world, yet according to the New York Times, by autumn 2008, more than 400,000 Iranians were able to access an uncensored web thanks to a...
ONI Blog: Global Voices blogpost: Flickr users vs. The State
Blogger and Global Voices contributor Sami Ben Gharbia chats with Iranian Hamed Saber about his innovative method for bypassing the ban on Flickr.com -- a popular photo-archive website site blocked in Iran and the UAE. ...
ONI Blog: Psiphon to offer way around Web censorship
On December 1 the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab will release psiphon -- free software that will enable Internet users around the world to circumvent government censorship of the Web. Read NY Times article. ...
Report: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
Advisory 001 Last modified: May 5, 2004 I. Executive Summary Internet access in Iran is subject to official censorship. Iranian authorities' guidelines for ISPs and users reportedly warn them to avoid all content seen as being in breach of social and cultural norms.[1]...
ONI Blog: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
ONI testing found that filters built in to the IBB Anonymizer service block access to numerous non-pornographic pages and sites. Some of these apparently unintentionally blocked sites are themselves blocked within Iran, resulting in a situation where sites are effectively doubly blocked...

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