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China's Twitter-like microblogging service updated their user contract last week, placing more restrictions on what users can and cannot post online.
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The US intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement recently leaked. As officials from nine different countries meet to negotiate the terms of the agreement, Internet freedom defenders are calling the TPP the cousin to ACTA.
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Categories: China,
Germany,
Gaza and the West Bank,
Netherlands,
Asia,
Middle East and North Africa (MENA),
Europe,
Legislation,
Copyright,
Take-down,
Circumvention,
Threats to the Open Net,
IP blocking,
Proxy blocking
Tor releases OONI-Probe and finds two blocked sites in Palestine; Sina Weibo releases specific guidelines for publishing content; the browser game Wolfenstein 3D is banned in Germany for its Nazi references; the Court of the Hague orders the Pirate Party to stop providing reverse proxies to the Pirate Bay.
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The Tor Project's most recent tool, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, collects data from individual computers to map Internet surveillance and filtering around the world.
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President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Authority ordered the attorney general to unblock eight news websites after receiving criticisms from all sides about its attempts to censor.
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Freedom House releases its 2012 "Freedom of the Press" Survey; CPJ releases its second report ranking the most censored countries in the world.
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Categories: 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
The Committee to Protect Journalists released a new study that ranks the most censored countries in the world. Among the top of the list are Eritrea, North Korea, and Syria.
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ONI releases 2011 Year in Review; Dmitry Medvedev says Internet censorship in Russia is impossible; eight Chinese file a lawsuit against Baidu for censorship; Ethiopian independent news site is blocked for a week.
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Reporters Without Borders reports that the Amharic version of Ethiopia's leading weekly news website has been blocked for the past five days within the country.
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A group of Chinese writers in New York sues Baidu for censoring their writing.
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Categories: United States/Canada,
Asia,
Middle East and North Africa (MENA),
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),
Europe,
Australia/New Zealand,
Legislation,
Arrests and legal action,
Take-down,
Search result removal,
Human rights,
Circumvention,
Surveillance,
Elections,
Privacy,
Data retention,
ONI,
Political filtering,
Social filtering,
Internet tools filtering,
Voluntary filtering,
IP blocking,
Filtering tech and software
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2011 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of online filtering, surveillance on the Internet, and information censorship around the world.
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Categories: Russia,
Europe,
ONI
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated publicly that he supports an open Internet in Russia. He simultaneously came out against child pornography and hate content.
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Google co-founder speaks out against China, Iran, and Facebook; Ai Weiwei claims Chinese censorship will become obsolete; Pakistani citizens file a petition against the government for illegally blocking foreign websites.
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Google co-founder said that the Chinese government's censorship policies and Hollywood's lobbying for stronger copyright laws impact are threatening the openness of the Internet.
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In a commentary for The Guardian UK, Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei criticizes the Communist Party and claims that its restrictive regulation of the Internet cannot persist.
Tor releases OONI-Probe and finds two blocked sites in Palestine; Sina Weibo releases specific guidelines for publishing content; the browser game Wolfenstein 3D is banned in Germany for its Nazi references; the Court of the Hague orders the Pirate Party to stop providing reverse proxies to the Pirate Bay.
The Tor Project's most recent tool, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, collects data from individual computers to map Internet surveillance and filtering around the world.
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Authority ordered the attorney general to unblock eight news websites after receiving criticisms from all sides about its attempts to censor.
Freedom House releases its 2012 "Freedom of the Press" Survey; CPJ releases its second report ranking the most censored countries in the world.
The Committee to Protect Journalists released a new study that ranks the most censored countries in the world. Among the top of the list are Eritrea, North Korea, and Syria.
ONI releases 2011 Year in Review; Dmitry Medvedev says Internet censorship in Russia is impossible; eight Chinese file a lawsuit against Baidu for censorship; Ethiopian independent news site is blocked for a week.
Google co-founder speaks out against China, Iran, and Facebook; Ai Weiwei claims Chinese censorship will become obsolete; Pakistani citizens file a petition against the government for illegally blocking foreign websites.
