United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Reddit Users Create "Free Internet Act" in Response to SOPA/PIPA
Reddit users are actively combating controversial proposed Internet legislation SOPA and PIPA with a proposal of their own. Austrian Reddit user “RoyalWithCheese22" initiated the Free Internet Act and now heads the subreddit "r/fia." According to its mission statement, the group seeks...
- Posted on 23/Feb/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Internet tools filtering
ONI Blog: Anonymous Protests ACTA with Planned Regular Attacks
Hacking group Anonymous is taking more severe measures to protest ACTA. Last week, the group hacked into several Federal Trade Commission websites, including business.ftc.gov, consumer.gov and ncpw.gov. It also announced plans to attack government and corporate websites on a regular, weekly...
- Posted on 22/Feb/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Legislation, Anonymity
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: February 17, 2012
Iran's government blocked a number of foreign-based websites right before the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The government also blocked encrypted traffic, causing Tor users to drop offline on Friday. After a concerted effort by Tor to mask...
- Posted on 17/Feb/2012; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: February 10, 2012
The Russian government blocks the Andrey Rylkov Foundation's website for publishing information about methadone, which can combat opiate addiction (and, relatedly, help stop the spread of HIV through the use of infected needles). The drug is banned in Russia.
Google and Facebook...
- Posted on 10/Feb/2012; tagged in United States of America, Russia, United States/Canada, Europe, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: February 3, 2012
Polish citizens protested on the streets in Warsaw and other cities around the country in response to the government's decision to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Many who are against the proposed bill to protect against copyright infringement is calling ACTA...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Google Joins Twitter in Move Toward Selective Censorship
Following Twitter's recent footsteps, Google announced that it would also begin censoring content on a country-to-country basis. Wired first broke the story that Google will be implementing changes to Blogger that will allow blog posts to be blocked in individual countries....
ONI Blog: Twitter Announces Censorship on Country-to-Country Basis
Last Thursday, Twitter announced on its blog that it would begin censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis. The company stated:
As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression....
- Posted on 01/Feb/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 27, 2012
After Wikipedia went dark for a day to protest SOPA and PIPA, the bills lost support, with 19 senators backing out. PIPA co-sponsor Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for "pushing forward with a flawed bill...
- Posted on 27/Jan/2012; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Rupert Murdoch Lashes Out Against Obama and Google About Piracy on Twitter
When Rupert Mordoch joined Twitter shortly after New Year's, he immediately took advantage of his 100,000-plus following and took to his feed to sharply criticize the Obama administration and Google over piracy concerns. Over the weekend, several "rants" appeared that...
- Posted on 20/Jan/2012; tagged in United States/Canada, Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: SOPA/PIPA Update: Calling for Voting Cancellation, House Hypocrisy, and a Wikipedia Blackout
Last week has been intensely eventful for those keeping up with the ongoing and unfolding drama concerning the SOPA/PIPA proposals. On Friday, six senators wrote a collective letter to majority leader Harry Reid asking him to cancel the Senate's vote on...
