United States of America
ONI Blog: Order to shut access to Wikileaks doesn't shut access to Wikileaks
Last Friday, a California court ordered that domain name registrar Dynadot remove DNS information that routes Internet users to wikileaks.org, a site that provides a place for people to leak documents or blow whistles on corporations or governments.
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- Posted on 21/Feb/2008; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Tech firms ask U.S. government for guidance and intervention on Internet censorship
On January 30th, the Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT) hosted its first conference on Global Internet Freedom. State Department officials heard appeals from Microsoft, Yahoo and Google -- and inputs from research and human rights organizations -- on...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2007; tagged in United States of America, Surveillance
ONI Blog: U.S. companies defend actions; China denies censorship
On the second day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), U.S. technology companies came under fire for selling products to China that have facilitated the government's censorship of the Internet and its crackdown on dissidents. While U.S. companies...
ONI Blog: Utah Sued Over Filtering Law
The Daily Herald reports that 14 plaintiffs sued Utah over its filtering law. The law requires ISPs to filter, at no additional charge, sites listed as inappropriate for minors by the state when a customer requests the filtering. Similar laws have...
- Posted on 10/Jun/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Utah's Internet Filtering Law Takes Hold
Utah's Internet filtering law requires ISPs to, among other things, filter access to material harmful to minors upon request of a customer. Content providers must also restrict access to such materials. We will see if this bill fares better than...
- Posted on 22/Apr/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Texas Proposes Filtering Rest Stop Wi-Fi
The Register describes proposed Texas legislation to prevent Internet users at rest stops from browsing "obscene" material on the 'Net. The bill also applies to prisons and county jails, but not educational institutions. "Obscene material" is defined by Section...
- Posted on 22/Apr/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Utah Weighs Internet Filtering
The Utah Senate passed a bill requiring ISPs to prevent access to sites listed in an "adult content" registry on a consumer's request. It appears ISPs could comply by providing consumers with filtering software. The bill will likely face a constitutional...
- Posted on 04/Mar/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Confronting U.S. censorship ... from Iran
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Human Rights activist and lawyer, is suing the U.S. Treasury Department because the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) prohibits the publications of books by Iranian authors (unless the work is completed...
- Posted on 26/Nov/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: CIA Chatroom Surveillance
Documents uncovered by EPIC show that the CIA and the National Science Foundation have a joint research project called "Surveillance, Analysis and Modeling of Chatroom Communities." Declan McCullagh reports that the project focuses on monitoring and logging IRC chatrooms....
ONI Blog: Geolocation filtering: www.georgewbush.com blocked during run-up to election
The ONI connected to remote computers located in fifty countries* around the world and requested the website, www.georgewbush.com, so that the geolocation filtering software used to restrict access to the website would respond as if we were physically located in each of...
