Asia
ONI Blog: Speaking Out in Malaysia
The arrest of blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act on September 12, just as his website Malaysia Today (http://mt.m2day.org/) was reported to be unblocked, provides an ominous reminder that there may be more effective ways of silencing...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2008; tagged in Malaysia, Asia, Arrests and legal action, Publications, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Turkey and YouTube: A Contentious Relationship
Turkey has a contentious relationship with popular video-sharing site YouTube. Blocked for the first time in early 2007, YouTube was intermittently available for most of 2007, only to be banned again in January of 2008.
Each time, the...
ONI Blog: Political website Malaysia Today reported blocked amidst crackdown on bloggers
The independent website Malaysiakini.com, reportedly the country’s most popular alternative news source, has announced that the political website Malaysia Today has been blocked by order of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). On its home page, Malaysia...
ONI Blog: The Catch-22 of protests and surveillance
The Washington Post points out that “in an age of cellphone cameras and YouTube,” Chinese police have exercised restraint in using physical force to stop foreign protesters. So far, foreign-led protests have even achieved a fair measure of media coverage,...
ONI Blog: ONI analysis of Internet filtering during Beijing Olympic Games: Week 1
ONI compared data from the Olympics Main Press Center (MPC) to that from other locations in Beijing, compiling a snapshot of Internet filtering in China leading up to week 1 of the Olympics.
Journalists’ access is home access
For each test at the MPC,...
ONI Blog: At Liu Xiang’s departure, Chinese netizens receive validation as the court of public opinion
The press conference held shortly after injured Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang dropped out of the Olympics on August 18 was broadcast on all 5 CCTV channels dedicated to Games-related coverage. Since his surprise win in the 110-meter hurdles at...
ONI Blog: Claims of wiping fakery from the Chinese Internet
The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony on August 8 has been revealed to have had its share of special effects (or fakery as some have called it).
On August 8, Xinhua claimed that 9-year old Lin Miaoke had "lent her voice" to "Sing...
ONI Blog: Unlike athletes, Chinese media held to different standards during Olympics
In the category of downplaying negative news about its home turf, the China Media Project has awarded the Chinese media the gold. Apparently this is not only common practice for CCTV basketball commentators; print media buried news about the...
ONI Blog: The Olympics and the Eyes of World
Hosting the Olympics has been a bittersweet experience so far for China, particularly for those that would have wanted this to be a showcase for the tremendous advances that have taken place in China over the past two decades. For a...
- Posted on 08/Aug/2008; tagged in China, Asia, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Surveillance Clamp-down in Beijing
Only one day before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games begin….and we’re not the only ones to notice.
The Chinese government has spread a stifling net of surveillance around the capital to allegedly ensure that the Olympics remain “safe”. This comes as...
