Iran
ONI Blog: Iran seals offices of news Web site critical of president
Iran is reported to have sealed off the office of the popular news Web site baztab.com. The last item on the Web site carried the headline: "The wish of the presidential office was realised and Baztab's offices were sealed off", Reuters reported....
- Posted on 24/Sep/2007; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Google Blocked in Iran, and Censorship Mistakes
It has been widely reported that on the evening of 16 September 2007 Google and its related services (Gmail, et cetera) were blocked in Iran. The popular blog server blogfa was also blocked. Iran unblocked access to these...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2007; tagged in Iran
ONI Blog: The Guardian: Iran shuts down website critical of president
The fundamentalist Web site Baztab.com which is critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been closed down, reports Robert Tait of The Guardian.
The banning of the conservative Web site was justified by the first open use of regulations adopted on 27...
- Posted on 19/Feb/2007; tagged in Iran
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: Iran: Bloggers rebel at new censorship (IPS)
Journalist and activist Omid Memarian discusses the new registration requirement for websites and weblogs sourced in Iran -- the latest maneuver by the hardliner government to tighten its grip on the Internet. ...
- Posted on 12/Jan/2007; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: The Guardian: Censorship fears rise as Iran blocks access to top websites
Senior officials in Iran's judiciary have ordered Internet service providers to block access to several popular websites, reports Robert Tait of The Guardian. The edict follows the recent restriction of Internet speeds in the country to 128kbs, which...
- Posted on 05/Dec/2006; tagged in Iran
ONI Blog: Strangling the Net: Iranian Censors Plan to Restrict Broadband Access
Little more than a month ago, the technical head of the Iranian company charged with filtering Internet content in Iran declared that Iran was blocking more than 10 million websites. Not to be outdone, Iranian government officials have countered by...
- Posted on 23/Oct/2006; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: A Censored Network: Iran
Richard Rogers' Govcom.org foundation has been doing cutting edge research on online networks for years, producing visually rich outputs that show connections among major nodes, typically using their issue crawler tool.
We at the OpenNet Initiative have entered into a...
- Posted on 19/Jun/2006; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: In the News: Hints of Net Liberalization in Certain Spaces, Increased Clamps in Others
On top of all the excitement at WSIS, there have been some recent articles examining freedom of information on the Net in the Arab world and beyond.
The UAE has recently legalized VOIP, the technology that enables Internet telephony.
Arab...
- Posted on 15/Nov/2005; tagged in Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Internet Filtering in Iran in 2004-2005
Iran's Internet filtering system is one of the worlds most substantial censorship regimes. Drawing from technical interrogation, extensive legal and political analysis, and interviews with Iranians, ONI’s analysis finds that Iran’s Internet filtering system is one of the world’s most substantial censorship...
