Geolocational Filtering
ONI Blog: Proposed EU Internet Filtering Condemned by Civil Liberties Groups
A meeting held in February by a working party of the European Union has gained widespread criticism after minutes from the meeting, published this week, revealed plans for a "single secure European cyberspace."
The plans were proposed by the Law Enforcement...
ONI Blog: Potential Facebook Venture Into China?
Facebook has been in talks with Chinese search engine Baidu to set up a social networking site in China, where the social networking giant has been banned since 2009.
Reports have not yet been confirmed, but an agreement would allow Facebook to launch...
ONI Blog: Geofiltering: How to Alienate Business Customers Without Really Trying
Many a DVD collector over the years has been disappointed upon learning that their rare DVD from Taiwan or France can't be played on their American DVD player. Just as DVD region codes limit viewing to a geographic area, the geofiltering...
- Posted on 03/Mar/2009; tagged in India, United States of America, Pakistan, United States/Canada, Asia, Geolocational Filtering, Reverse filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: YouTube and the rise of geolocational filtering
YouTomb, a project of the MIT Free Culture group that studies takedown notices by the video-sharing website YouTube, has identified a mechanism used by Google to restrict video content in specific countries. This appears to be the method YouTube...
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: FEER: The Geopolitics of Asian Cyberspace
Cyberspace is "an object of geopolitical contestation," writes Ronald Deibert in this month's issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER). And while Asian cyberspace is largely controlled by the regions' governments, tech-savvy individuals are contesting state control by...
- Posted on 06/Dec/2006; tagged in Geolocational Filtering
ONI Blog: PBS Geolocation
Ron Deibert discovered that PBS.org is restricting access to some of their programs by geolocation filtering.
Generally, geographically-targeted filtering uses geolocation technology to determine an Internet user's geographic origin by looking up...
- Posted on 16/Jan/2006; tagged in Geolocational Filtering
