Asia
ONI Blog: Thailand Imposes Media and Internet Speech Restrictions in Wake of Coup
The military junta that deposed controversial Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra earlier this week has revoked all laws in the country and issued its own vague media restrictions requiring all media outlets to self-censor. Media are required to report only...
ONI Blog: Internet Filtering in Vietnam
ONI has released today a report that finds an increase in Internet censorship in Vietnam.
Drawing from technical, legal, and political sources, ONI’s research finds that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is focusing its filtering on sites considered threatening to its...
ONI Blog: India Blocks Sites
Indian ISPs are as of July 13 blocking several Web sites, including Blogspot, Typepad, and Geocities. Several reports by bloggers seem to confirm that it is India's Department of Telecommunications (DOT) that has requested Indian ISPs to...
Report: China Tightens Controls on Internet News Content Through Additional Regulations
OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 012
July 6, 2006
Last Updated: July 5, 2006
Contents
- Summary
- Background
- Regulations Summary
- Specific Provisions of Regulations
- Implications
- Conclusion
Summary
China's new regulations for Internet news content significantly tighten prior requirements that govern all news-related content...
ONI Blog: Is there a way to circumvent Google's censorship in China?
Google.cn is a Chinese language search service targeted towards users in the People's Republic of China. It was launched on January 25 2006 and it filters search requests to content deemed to be "sensitive" by the government of China. (You can compare...
ONI Blog: Skype Filters Text Messages in China
Following a trend of Western companies filtering content in China, Skype's CEO admits that the company's partner in China filters text messages. ONI has reported on China's filtering of multiple modes of on-line communication -...
ONI Blog: Cisco Denies Helping China Censor
Information Week has an article that references ONI's China country study, and that quotes Cisco's Chief Development Officer as stating that 1) China acquired Cisco tech through a reseller and 2) the features used to filter Web pages are the...
- Posted on 01/Mar/2006; tagged in Asia
Report: Analysis of China's Non-Commercial Web Site Registration Regulation
OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 011
Last Updated: February 22,2006
China has recently moved to require all non-commercial Web sites to register with its Ministry of Information Industry (MII)(1). The MII began closing non-registered Web sites at the end of December2005. The OpenNet Initiative (ONI)...
ONI Blog: Google.cn Filtering: How It Works
Google has opened a new Chinese-language search engine at www.google.cn that filters out results from sites that are considered “sensitive” by the Chinese government. In addition to filtering news.bbc.co.uk search results are also filtered for the human right groups hrw.org and hrichina.org...
