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ONI Blog: China's latest Internet crackdown
This blog post was originally posted at Rebecca MacKinnon's blog, RConversation, and is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.
Seven different government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security and the State Council Information Office declared war on Internet...
ONI Blog: Over 1,203 Sites Blocked in Thailand
Over the weekend, it was reported by WikiLeaks that the secret censorship lists of Thailand's Ministroy of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) had been obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, who is the director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand.
Wikileaks...
ONI Blog: India: Petition to block Google Earth
According to reports published in The Register and The Times of London, an Indian court has been called to ban Google Earth in response to intelligence indicating that the satellite imaging was used in planning November’s terrorist attack’s...
- Posted on 20/Dec/2008; tagged in India, Asia, Legislation, ONI, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: China restores blocks on foreign websites
According to New York Times and BBC news reports, the Chinese government has begun to reinvigorate its filtration of foreign websites, including bans on BBC’s Chinese language website and Voice of America in Chinese. This censorship comes in...
ONI Blog: Vietnam: Google, Yahoo! sought to regulate blogosphere
According to AFP news reports, Vietnam’s government wants to enlist Google and Yahoo! to help “regulate” the country’s blogging scene in an effort to stop “incorrect information” from being published online.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of activity in...
- Posted on 04/Dec/2008; tagged in Vietnam, Asia, Arrests and legal action, ONI, Political filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Studying Chinese blog censorship
On Thursday this past week, Beijing-based lawyer-blogger Liu Xiaoyuan won Deutsche Welle's annual prize for the Best Chinese Blog. Then on Friday he discovered that the parallel blog he keeps at Sohu.com had been taken down. Fortunately, being a...
ONI Blog: Firefox Add-On Allows Users to Experience Chinese Internet Censorship
Anyone who has followed OpenNet Initiative's research or even the mainstream media knows it's no secret that China filters the Internet. China has made headlines time and again for its pervasive policies toward censorship.
In 2006, Nart Villeneuve of ONI partner...
ONI Blog: China Enacts More Filtering Measures
According to Beijing news reports, Chinese government has enacted further measures to enforce cyber-surveillance of Internet cafés. In this “Big Brother-style system,” these users will be required to have their mugshots taken and their ID card swiped in all of...
ONI Blog: Burma Steps Up Internet Restrictions
According to news reports, Burma’s military government has taken further steps to restrict citizen access to the Internet by silencing dissidents and stepping up raids on Internet cafes. Hacker attacks originating from Russia, China, and Singapore blocked access to four...
- Posted on 27/Oct/2008; tagged in Burma, Asia, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: ONI Affiliate Reveals Chinese Surveillance of Skype Messages
Groundbreaking research by an ONI affiliate made major news today. Nart Villeneuve, a fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, revealed in a joint Information Warfare Monitor/ONI Asia report Wednesday TOM-Skype, a special software for using Skype in...
