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ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 13, 2012
Members of the NetCoalition trade association are considering shutting down in protest of the SOPA bill that's about to be voted on in Congress. Companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been discussing the possibility of conducting a mass Internet...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: January 6, 2012
Iran's parliament has recently proposed to implement stricter controls over the Internet, including placing blog posts, comments, and text messages under the same surveillance as mainstream media. In attempts to create a "national" and "clean" Internet, the Iranian government is acting...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: December 9, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
ONI Blog: Anonymous Threatens U.S. Government Over Potential Internet Censorship
Receiving multiple criticisms from all sides of the blogosphere and online news media, SOPA got a new enemy last week as Anonymous hacker group threatened the U.S. government to stop what they see as an attempt to censor the Internet. A...
ONI Blog: Internet Companies Place Anti-SOPA Ad in New York Times
Usually heated competitors in Silicon Valley, Google and Facebook have joined forces to combat legislation that many have claimed to be "the end of the Internet." The two companies, along with other huge tech companies ranging from eBay to AOL, ...
ONI Blog: Anonymous Threatens to Attack Toronto's Internet in Support of Occupy Demonstrators
Hacker group Anonymous recently threatened to "remove" Toronto from the Internet when police officials there attempted to interrupt protests taking place in the city. Part of the global Occupy movement, the Occupy Toronto demonstrations have lasted for about a month. However,...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: November 4, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
ONI Blog: US Intelligence Report Calls China and Russia Biggest Cyber Espionage Threats
A recently released report by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive labels China the “world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage,” according to the Council of Foreign Relations. The report also calls Russia one of the biggest cyber...
ONI Blog: Stop Online Piracy Act Raises Concerns Over Legal Censorship in US
Nate Anderson on Ars Technica recently published a piece explaining the dangers of the House of Representatives' newly proposed bill to protect intellectual property on the Internet. According to the plan itself, the bill would implement a “market-based system to protect...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: October 21, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...

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