United States/Canada
Report: Internet Filtering in the United States and Canada in 2006-2007
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Regional Overview: United States and Canada.
Introduction
Though neither the United States nor Canada practices widespread technical Internet filtering at the state level, the Internet is far from “unregulated” in either state.See Jack...
- Posted on 21/Dec/2010; tagged in United States/Canada, Publications
ONI Blog: WikiLeaks: Reactions from the ONI Team
With WikiLeaks dominating the media over the past two weeks, a number of the OpenNet Initiative's principals and staffers have commented publicly on the implications of the leaks on the Internet.
ONI co-principal investigator and director of the Citizen Lab Ron Deibert took...
- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in Canada, United States of America, United States/Canada, ONI, Intermediary Censorship, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: Week of 12/6/2010
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative will provide a weekly roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") on our blog, in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for the entire blog or...
- Posted on 10/Dec/2010; tagged in China, Iran, Venezuela, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Latin America, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: #WikiLeaks & Twitter Trending Topics: Manual Interference or Algorithms as Usual?
The recent outcry over whether or not “Wikileaks”, “#cablegate”, “Assange”, or similar terms being blacklisted on Twitter has brought up a now familiar question: to what degree does Twitter enhance their trending topics algorithm with manual interference? As in June with #iranElection...
- Posted on 09/Dec/2010; tagged in United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Intermediary Censorship of Wikileaks On the Rise
The list of private companies that have in some way refused access or support to Wikileaks is growing: as of December 6, the tally included Amazon, EveryDNS, PayPal, and Tableau Software; French hosting company OVH also appears to have shut down...
- Posted on 06/Dec/2010; tagged in China, Thailand, United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Take-down
ONI Blog: Law professors, interest groups call for ACTA transparency
A group of more than 75 law school professors wrote a letter to President Obama this past week calling for increased transparency regarding ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The talks, which have been in progress since June 2008, aim...
ONI Blog: RIAA Claims Small Victory After Shutting Down LimeWire
Major news sources report that popular peer-to-peer music downloading service LimeWire has been officially dismantled by U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood this week.
This four year battle marks a considerable win for the Recording Industry Association of America, who...
- Posted on 28/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Copyright, Take-down
ONI Blog: Major U.S. Networks Block Google TV
Although Sony recently released new TV models with Google TV built-in, the new technology that merges channel and web browsing may not as big as Google hoped it would. Recently, ABC, NBC, and CBS have all reported that they are...
- Posted on 23/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Non-filtering content restrictions, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: ACLU, Internet content providers oppose MA obscenity law on constitutional grounds
Groups opposed to an amending a Massachusetts obscenity law targeting electronic communications argued their case in front of US district judge Rya Zobel this past Tuesday. The internet content providers and free speech advocates filed a request for a preliminary injunction banning...
- Posted on 22/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Obscenity
ONI Blog: Threats of Censorship Loom with New Internet Copyright Infringement Bill
The “Great Firewall” is something most Americans only associate with Chinese Internet regulation, but they may be able to add their own country to that list soon.
On September 20, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the...
- Posted on 06/Oct/2010; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Copyright, Political filtering
