United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Confronting U.S. censorship ... from Iran
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Human Rights activist and lawyer, is suing the U.S. Treasury Department because the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) prohibits the publications of books by Iranian authors (unless the work is completed...
- Posted on 26/Nov/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
ONI Blog: CIA Chatroom Surveillance
Documents uncovered by EPIC show that the CIA and the National Science Foundation have a joint research project called "Surveillance, Analysis and Modeling of Chatroom Communities." Declan McCullagh reports that the project focuses on monitoring and logging IRC chatrooms....
ONI Blog: Geolocation filtering: www.georgewbush.com blocked during run-up to election
The ONI connected to remote computers located in fifty countries* around the world and requested the website, www.georgewbush.com, so that the geolocation filtering software used to restrict access to the website would respond as if we were physically located in each of...
Report: Geolocation filtering: www.georgewbush.com blocked during run-up to election
OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 007
October 27, 2004
Last Updated: October 27, 2004
Contents:
- Background
- Methodology & Results
- Conclusions
Background
The BBC, using data collected by Netcraft, reports that since Monday October 25th 2004, the official website of the Bush-Cheney campaign website...
Report: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
Advisory 001
Last modified: May 5, 2004
I. Executive Summary
Internet access in Iran is subject to official censorship. Iranian authorities' guidelines for ISPs and users reportedly warn them to avoid all content seen as being in breach of social and cultural norms.[1]...
- Posted on 04/May/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention
