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ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 17th, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 17/Jun/2011; tagged in Canada, Iran, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Turkey, Qatar, United States/Canada, Asia, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Circumvention, Cybercrime and security, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: When a Canadian company decides what citizens in the Middle East can access online
Users in Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Kuwait reported via Twitter in the past couple of days that they are not able to access the blog hosting platform tumblr.com or any other blog hosted by the platform. This filtering incident surprised both the...
- Posted on 16/May/2011; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Qatar, Kuwait, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Filtering tech and software
Report: West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011
March 2011
Authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian C. York.
To view this bulletin as a PDF, click here.
Executive Summary
The OpenNet Initiative has documented network filtering of the Internet by national governments in over forty countries worldwide. Countries use this network filtering...
- Posted on 28/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, Canada, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Filtering tech and software
Country Profile: Qatar
Background
Under the leadership of Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Qatar has become more liberal.“Country Profile: Qatar,” BBC News, March 11, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/791921.stm. However, any organized opposition to the emirate is illegal, and political parties are nonexistent.United Nations Development Programme on...
- Posted on 06/Aug/2009; tagged in Qatar, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: Popular site "Tagged" Blocked in Qatar
According to one user of Qatar Living, popular site "Tagged" has been blocked by QTEL, which operates in 17 countries and is currently Qatar's only Internet service provider (Vodafone has also been given a license and will begin service soon, ...
