Asia
ONI Blog: South Korea Mulls Ending Internet Censorship of North Korea Sites
South Korea has been under pressure about its blocking of North Korean Web sites. The Unification Minister was challenged on how censorship comports with South Korea's policy of openness towards the DPRK. South Korea is thinking of lifting at least...
ONI Blog: Filtering by Domestic Blog Providers in China
The Chinese government has focused increasing attention on the control of blogs; three major blog providers have implemented a filtering mechanism to control the content of blog posts. If a sensitive keyword is present in a blog entry the filtering mechanism is...
Report: Filtering by Domestic Blog Providers in China
OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 008
January 14, 2005
Last Updated: January 20, 2005
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Conclusions
Background
Weblogs, most often called "blogs" have become one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet. The idea is simple: blogs allow...
ONI Blog: China's Bureau of Culture Calls for Greater Internet Control
An official at China's Bureau of Culture has called for greater control over, and monitoring of, Internet content. The official cited the risk of "cultural aggression" in an article in the issue of Seeking Truth, the Chinese Communist Party's political magazine....
ONI Blog: RSF Reports Google News Blocked
Reporters Sans Frontieres reports that Google's news site is blocked in China. Google voluntarily removes blocked links from its Chinese-language news site. This problem highlights the dilemma Google, and many Western companies, face: conform to China's filtering system, or...
ONI Blog: Movies, the 'Net, and Protest in China
The Los Angeles Times (free registration required) describes Internet resistance to a Chinese Communist Party official's attempt to force public school students to attend a movie made by his daughter. This corruption case garnered national attention because of the Internet discussion...
Report: Google Search & Cache Filtering Behind China's Great Firewall
OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 006
August 30, 2004
Last Updated: September 3, 2004
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Conclusions
Background
The popular search engine Google was temporarily blocked by the government of China in September 2002. Chinese Internet users were unable to access the...
ONI Blog: Google Search & Cache Filtering Behind China's Great Firewall
Although China no longer blocks Google in its entirety, a Chinese user of Google can potentially have a much different Google experience than one from another country due to China's content filtering practices. Chinese Internet users' access to Google is filtered for...
ONI Blog: Probing Chinese search engine filtering
ONI conducted a research probe into the practice of search engine filtering in China, with a focus on Baidu.com and Yisou.com, two popular Chinese search engines. Our probe concludes that the Yisou and Baidu search engines are indeed actively filtering keyword search...
ONI Blog: Internet Content Filtering in India: Variations in Compliance and Accuracy
In response to a Rediff.com report indicating that the Mumbai Police Commissioner's Office had ordered ISPs in India to block the website HinduUnity.org (because of inflammatory anti-Islamic material contained on the website) we connected to the web site in controversy through remote...
