Asia
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: Japan: Police Remove Messages from Cell Phone Social Networking Sites
According to Japanese daily Yomiuri, police have asked six cell phone social networking sites to delete messages from underage users looking for dates.
The Metropolitan Police Department believes that these messages are similar to those posted on dating service sites and as...
ONI Blog: Google confirms YouTube blocked in China
Google officially confirmed today that YouTube has been blocked in China, from a steep drop in traffic on the evening of March 23 to “near zero” by March 24.
Since March 23, 146 reports of YouTube's inaccessibility have streamed into...
ONI Blog: Doubts surface over announced Internet maintenance in Burma
Since March 22, 2009, Internet speeds in Burma have been slowed significantly. Myanmar Teleport (MMT) had announced that the submarine cable SE-ME-WE 3 (South East Asia Middle West Europe 3) will be undergoing maintenance from March 21 to March 25,...
ONI Blog: Bangladesh Blocks Access to YouTube
According to news reports, the government of Bangladesh blocked access to YouTube on March 9 after the site hosted a recording of a meeting between the prime minister and military officials following a border guard mutiny in late February of this...
ONI Blog: India: Maharashtra Wants Censorship of Google Earth
According to reports in The Hindu, India’s Maharashtra government is revisiting legal options to censor Google Earth in the wake of the program’s alleged use in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Curbing the use of Google Earth...
- Posted on 12/Mar/2009; tagged in India, Asia, ONI, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Geofiltering: How to Alienate Business Customers Without Really Trying
Many a DVD collector over the years has been disappointed upon learning that their rare DVD from Taiwan or France can't be played on their American DVD player. Just as DVD region codes limit viewing to a geographic area, the geofiltering...
- Posted on 03/Mar/2009; tagged in India, United States of America, Pakistan, United States/Canada, Asia, Geolocational Filtering, Reverse filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Variation in Blogging Censorship in China
A recent report on user-generated content on social media and blogging platforms in China reveals that there is variation in censorship levels across fifteen different blogging platforms according to a paper by Berkman affiliate Rebecca MacKinnon.
The report, “China’s Censorship 2.0: How...
- Posted on 25/Feb/2009; tagged in China, Asia, Non-filtering content restrictions, ONI, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Update: Google Earth and the Mumbai Terror Attacks
In early December 2008, an Indian court was convened to ban Google Earth amid suggestions that the online satellite imaging was used to aid terrorists in planning the November terror attacks in Mumbai. According to late January reports in the ...
- Posted on 08/Feb/2009; tagged in India, Asia, ONI, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Google China and Baidu Apologize, Agree to Cooperate with Chinese Filtration
According to reports in the Register, three of China’s most popular search engines, including Google China and Baidu, have apologized for being slow to remove links to pornographic websites.
This news comes in the wake of China’s pledge...
