United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Order to shut access to Wikileaks doesn't shut access to Wikileaks
Last Friday, a California court ordered that domain name registrar Dynadot remove DNS information that routes Internet users to wikileaks.org, a site that provides a place for people to leak documents or blow whistles on corporations or governments.
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- Posted on 21/Feb/2008; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
Regional Overview: United States and Canada
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Note: a previous version of this profile is available at United States and Canada, 2006-2007.
Introduction
The Internet in the United States and Canada is highly regulated, supported by a complex set of legally binding and privately mediated mechanisms. Technical filtering...
- Posted on 14/May/2007; tagged in United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Google shareholders vote down anti-censorship proposal
Google shareholders rejected anti-censorship resolution during the company's annual stockholder's meeting on May 10. This decision came after Google's board of directors recommended on April 4 that the company's shareholders vote down the anti-censorship proposal.
The proposal stated that "technology companies...
ONI Blog: U.S. companies defend actions; China denies censorship
On the second day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), U.S. technology companies came under fire for selling products to China that have facilitated the government's censorship of the Internet and its crackdown on dissidents. While U.S. companies...
ONI Blog: Telus Blocks Consumer Access to Labour Union Web Site and Filters an Additional 766 Unrelated Sites
On July 25, 2005, Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) Telus blocked subscribers' access to a Web site set up by an employee labor union intended to publicize the union's views about its dispute with Telus. In addition, the OpenNet Initiative's (ONI) research...
Report: Telus Blocks Consumer Access to Labour Union Web Site and Filters an Additional 766 Unrelated Sites
OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 010
August 2, 2005
Last Updated: August 2, 2005
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Observations
On July 25, 2005, Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) Telus blocked subscribers' access to a Web site set up by an employee labor union intended...
ONI Blog: Utah Sued Over Filtering Law
The Daily Herald reports that 14 plaintiffs sued Utah over its filtering law. The law requires ISPs to filter, at no additional charge, sites listed as inappropriate for minors by the state when a customer requests the filtering. Similar laws have...
- Posted on 10/Jun/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Utah's Internet Filtering Law Takes Hold
Utah's Internet filtering law requires ISPs to, among other things, filter access to material harmful to minors upon request of a customer. Content providers must also restrict access to such materials. We will see if this bill fares better than...
- Posted on 22/Apr/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Texas Proposes Filtering Rest Stop Wi-Fi
The Register describes proposed Texas legislation to prevent Internet users at rest stops from browsing "obscene" material on the 'Net. The bill also applies to prisons and county jails, but not educational institutions. "Obscene material" is defined by Section...
- Posted on 22/Apr/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Utah Weighs Internet Filtering
The Utah Senate passed a bill requiring ISPs to prevent access to sites listed in an "adult content" registry on a consumer's request. It appears ISPs could comply by providing consumers with filtering software. The bill will likely face a constitutional...
- Posted on 04/Mar/2005; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
