Legislation
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: Syrian Telecom Minister: The answer is raising awareness, not censorship
According to Sada Souria, Syrian Telecom Minister, Imad Saboni, said in a recent lecture at Tishreen University that he personally believes that “effectively raising awareness of the dangers of the internet is the answer, not blocking websites.” Saboni alluded...
- Posted on 08/Dec/2010; tagged in Syria, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Law professors, interest groups call for ACTA transparency
A group of more than 75 law school professors wrote a letter to President Obama this past week calling for increased transparency regarding ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The talks, which have been in progress since June 2008, aim...
ONI Blog: Australian Prime Minister Backs Web Filtering
The AFP recently reported that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has begun actively pushing to filter Australia’s Internet content. According to news sources, the filter would block websites that contain rape, bestiality, and child sex abuse. Included in the plan...
- Posted on 28/Oct/2010; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Surveillance, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: ACLU, Internet content providers oppose MA obscenity law on constitutional grounds
Groups opposed to an amending a Massachusetts obscenity law targeting electronic communications argued their case in front of US district judge Rya Zobel this past Tuesday. The internet content providers and free speech advocates filed a request for a preliminary injunction banning...
- Posted on 22/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Obscenity
ONI Blog: Older Generation of Chinese Politicians Seek to End Censorship
For the younger demographics living in China during the age of social media and online networking, Facebook, Twitter, and numerous other Web 2.0 sites remain inaccessible to them. But it may be an older generation that will change that for...
ONI Blog: Threats of Censorship Loom with New Internet Copyright Infringement Bill
The “Great Firewall” is something most Americans only associate with Chinese Internet regulation, but they may be able to add their own country to that list soon.
On September 20, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the...
- Posted on 06/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Copyright, Political filtering
ONI Blog: New Legislation With Hidden Consequences
In U.S. Bill HR 4899 (Full Text Here), there are supplemental appropriations of around $80 Billion towards the troops in Afghanistan, Haiti relief, the Gulf oil spill, employment issues with the recession, and snuck in at the very end, a...
ONI Blog: Stop This Law - Internet Regulation, Surveillance, and VOIP in Lebanon
Global Voices Online and the Social Media Exchange (SMEX) report that Lebanese activists organizing under the slogan Stop The Vote have managed to postpone parliamentary voting for one month (starting June 15) on what they see as a...
- Posted on 21/Jun/2010; tagged in Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Surveillance
ONI Blog: Cuba and Venezuela connect through socialism, fiber optic cable
Telecommunications workers began sounding tests along Cuba’s southeastern coastline last week, marking the first phase of plans to lay a submarine fiber optic cable connecting Venezuela, Cuba, and Jamaica.
If successful, Cuban news site Cubadebate reports that the cable’s 640 gigabytes would...
