Iran
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: #iranelection Censored? Evaluating Twitter's Trending Topics
Written in collaboration with Devin Gaffney.
Following the anniversary of the Iran election protests on June 12th, Iranian reform protesters began accusing Twitter of censoring #iranelection when the hashtag did not trend on the site that day. Some protestors went so far...
ONI Blog: ONI releases new survey of Internet filtering and surveillance in Iran
Last week, as Iranian voters went to the polls to elect the country's next president, the Iranian government blocked access to number of political Web sites, as well as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Yesterday the OpenNet Initiative profiled the extent of this...
- Posted on 16/Jun/2009; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Elections, Publications
Report: Internet Filtering in Iran in 2006-2007
PDF Version
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Iran.
Overview
Since 2000—in the midst of a media crackdown that has seen the judiciary close more than 100 publications, inspiring widespread self-censorship—the Islamic Republic of Iran has installed...
ONI Blog: Cracking Down on Digital Communication and Political Organizing in Iran
By Rob Faris and Rebekah Heacock
The Internet and mobile phones have taken on a major role in Iranian politics over the last several months. As protests over the contested election results continue in Iran, the government has dramatically increased its control...
ONI Blog: Iranians Regain Access to Facebook After Day-Long Ban
Iranians regained access to Facebook and Twitter following a one-day government-imposed ban last week, CNN News reports. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated that he had not called for the ban, adding that he believes “in maximum freedom of expression.”
The...
- Posted on 01/Jun/2009; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Political filtering
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...
- Posted on 06/May/2009; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention, Internet tools filtering, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: The Worst Places to be a Blogger
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released a list of the ten worst countries in which to blog. Topping the list is Burma, followed closely by Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt.
In determining...
- Posted on 30/Apr/2009; tagged in Burma, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Syria, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Human rights
ONI Blog: A Preview of our forthcoming Iran Blogosphere Study
ONI has documented filtering in Iran in a number of studies over the past four years, demonstrating an increase in the extent of filtering. At the core of the issue is the impact of Internet filtering on the range...
- Posted on 07/Apr/2008; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Norooznews.ir: Yahoo email, messenger and group blocked in Iran
ISPs in Iran were ordered to block Yahoo email, messenger, and group sites, reported Iranian Web site Norooznews.ir (Farsi).
The site added that the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology refused to acknowledge the reports of the blocking which went into effect...
