Take-down
ONI Blog: German Police Shut Down Wikileaks Domain
According to The Inquirer, German police have raided the offices of WikiLeaks.de, a website that publishes leaks of government documents, transferring control of the domain to German authorities and shutting down the website.
This move was triggered by WikiLeaks’ publication...
ONI Blog: Japan: Police Remove Messages from Cell Phone Social Networking Sites
According to Japanese daily Yomiuri, police have asked six cell phone social networking sites to delete messages from underage users looking for dates.
The Metropolitan Police Department believes that these messages are similar to those posted on dating service sites and as...
ONI Blog: Google Executives on Trial in Italy
According to reports in the New York Times, four Google executives are on trial in Milan for charges of defamation and privacy violation regarding a video posted on Google’s Italian website.
The case pertains to a three-minute cell phone video...
- Posted on 10/Feb/2009; tagged in Italy, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Take-down, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: FCC Plans Filtering for 2155 MHz Spectrum
Facing heavy pressure from Congress, the FCC last week delayed its planned auction for the 2155-2188 MHz band of spectrum. Among the points of contention, the auction as it is currently designed would require that the winner ...
- Posted on 16/Dec/2008; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Take-down, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Studying Chinese blog censorship
On Thursday this past week, Beijing-based lawyer-blogger Liu Xiaoyuan won Deutsche Welle's annual prize for the Best Chinese Blog. Then on Friday he discovered that the parallel blog he keeps at Sohu.com had been taken down. Fortunately, being a...
ONI Blog: German Wikipedia Shut Down After Legal Action by Member of Parliament
Within a few days German member of parliament Lutz Heilmann (The Left – Die Linke) became famous in a way he probably had not expected. On Thursday, November 13, he successfully closed down www.wikipedia.de, the website of Wikipedia Germany which forwards...
ONI Blog: Adiós Diego: Argentine judges cleanse the Internet
By: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Christopher Soghoian
Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of country's most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina...
- Posted on 11/Nov/2008; tagged in Argentina, Latin America, Defamation, Take-down, Search result removal, Political filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: Three Easy Steps to Block Sites in Turkey
In a clear instance of vexatious litigation, a Turkish court has blocked the Web site of prominent evolutionist Richard Dawkins following complaints from Islamic creationist and author Adnan Oktar. Oktar, who writes under the nom de plume Harun Yahya, filed...
- Posted on 25/Sep/2008; tagged in Turkey, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Defamation, Take-down, Social filtering
ONI Blog: YouTube, Scientology and the DMCA
You've all seen the anti-Scientology protests; a group known as Anonymous, wearing Guy Fawkes, protest outside various churches of Scientology, or most recently here in Cambridge, outside of an exhibit aimed at teaching people about the religion. Many such protests...
- Posted on 09/Sep/2008; tagged in Canada, United States of America, Germany, Australia, United States/Canada, Europe, Take-down
ONI Blog: Whack-a-Mole in New York
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on June 10th an “unprecedented deal” with Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint to “block major sources of child pornography.” The political logic of this action is abundantly clear, though it will...
- Posted on 12/Jun/2008; tagged in United States of America, Legislation, Take-down, Voluntary filtering
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