Internet tools filtering

ONI Blog: After the Green Movement: Internet Controls in Iran, 2009-2012

This report, titled "After the Green Movement: Internet Controls in Iran, 2009-2012", details Iran’s increasing Internet controls since 2009, when protests against the victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad rocked the country. The election protest campaign--dubbed the “Green Movement”--was marked for...

- Posted on 15/Feb/2013; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Elections, Political filtering, Internet tools filtering

ONI Blog: Update on information controls in Ethiopia

Introduction Ethiopia remains a highly restrictive environment in which to express political dissent online. The government of Ethiopia has long filtered critical and oppositional political content. Anti-terrorism legislation is frequently used to target online speech, including in the recent conviction of a dozen...

- Posted on 01/Nov/2012; tagged in Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Internet tools filtering

ONI Blog: Update on information controls in Burma

After years spent as one of the world’s most strictly controlled information environments, the government of Burma (Myanmar) has recently begun to open up access to previously censored online content. Independent and foreign news sites, oppositional political content, and sites with content...

- Posted on 23/Oct/2012; tagged in Burma, Asia, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Internet tools filtering

ONI Blog: Update on threats to freedom of expression online in Vietnam

Information openness has come under further threat in Vietnam, as the ongoing suppression of critical voices within the country may be strengthened through recently proposed regulations regarding use of the Internet. The new regulations seek to further criminalize and ban controversial web...

- Posted on 10/Sep/2012; tagged in Vietnam, Asia, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 10, 2012

Iran's telecommunications minister announced on Sunday that the government's project to replace access to the global Internet with Iran's own domestic intranet system is scheduled to be completed within 18 months. The proposed insular intranet would be heavily regulated...

- Posted on 10/Aug/2012; tagged in Brazil, United States of America, Lebanon, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Latin America, Legislation, Surveillance, Cybercrime and security, Privacy, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 3, 2012

Tajikistan blocked a number of news websites and YouTube on Monday following deadly clashes last week between security forces and armed rebels in an eastern autonomous region of the Central Asian republic. Among the blocked websites were the Russian...

- Posted on 03/Aug/2012; tagged in United States of America, Tajikistan, United States/Canada, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Threats to the Open Net, Intermediary Censorship, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering

ONI Blog: Facebook uses scanning technologies, alerts authorites about content

In March of this year, authorities in south Florida arrested a man in his thirties who had used Facebook to make plans to meet up with a minor. According to Reuters, a program designed by the social networking platform to...

- Posted on 16/Jul/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Internet tools filtering

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 29, 2012

In response to protests over recent austerity measures that began last week, the Sudanese government has attempted to choke the press by arresting journalists and censoring news sources. Even as online media is being used to circumvent censorship measures, activists who...

- Posted on 29/Jun/2012; tagged in Sudan, New Zealand, Australia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Australia/New Zealand, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Privacy, Threats to the Open Net, Intermediary Censorship, Internet tools filtering

ONI Blog: Public WiFi Filtering on the Rise

The London summer Olympic games are readily approaching, and Internet Service Providers are responding to the expected dramatic rise in the London population in the coming months by increasing their free public WiFi service offerings. Virgin is rolling out...

- Posted on 14/Jun/2012; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Legislation, Publications, ONI, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: CPJ Ranks Ten Most Censored Countries

In preparation for World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists published its findings on the most censored countries in the world. The top three countries with the most press restrictions and least access to media information were revealed to...