Human rights
ONI Blog: UN Report Declares Access to Internet a Human Right
On Friday, Wired reported that United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression had released a report declaring access to the Internet to be a human right: “The Special Rapporteur...
- Posted on 08/Jun/2011; tagged in Human rights, Publications
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Tunisia Shuts Off Internet Filter
Following a speech in which Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stated that all censorship of the internet and traditional media will be halted, Tunisia appears to have shut off its Internet filtering system.
At around 9:45pm local time, Tunisian news...
- Posted on 13/Jan/2011; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Older Generation of Chinese Politicians Seek to End Censorship
For the younger demographics living in China during the age of social media and online networking, Facebook, Twitter, and numerous other Web 2.0 sites remain inaccessible to them. But it may be an older generation that will change that for...
Report: Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere
September 2010
Authored by Jillian C. York, with contributions from Robert Faris and Ron Deibert, and editorial assistance from Rebekah Heacock
To view this bulletin as a PDF, click here.
Introduction
Online conversations today exist primarily in the realm of social media and blogging platforms,...
- Posted on 20/Sep/2010; tagged in United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Human rights, Publications, ONI, Social filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: Honduras: one year after the military coup, press freedom remains under siege
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the military coup d’état that drove now former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power. Since January of 2010, eight journalists have been assassinated, making Honduras the most dangerous country for journalists working in Latin America,...
- Posted on 29/Jun/2010; tagged in Latin America, Human rights
ONI Blog: Mexico: #Cananea censored?
Last Sunday night, nearly two thousand federal police forces in the northern state of Sonora forcibly ended a workers’ strike, evacuating members of the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union from outside of the Cananea copper mines, where they had been picketing...
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review: Filtering, Surveillance, Information Warfare
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to release its 2009 Year in Review, a look into instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the world in 2009.
The events of 2009 demonstrated a global rise in third-generation Internet controls. ...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2010; tagged in United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, Search result removal, Human rights, Cybercrime and security, Publications, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Reverse filtering, Overblocking, DNS tampering, IP blocking, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: More than half a billion Internet users are being filtered worldwide
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has been monitoring Internet filtering around the world since 2002. Currently, more than 40 countries are filtering the Internet to varying degrees, while a number of others, including Australia, Iraq, and Spain, are considering enacting filtering policies....
- Posted on 19/Jan/2010; tagged in North Korea, Iraq, Germany, Russia, Australia, United Kingdom, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Overblocking, IP blocking, Proxy blocking
ONI Blog: China blocks Twitter, Hotmail, Flickr before Tiananmen anniversary
In preparation for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Thursday, China has blocked access to Twitter, Hotmail, Flickr, MSN Spaces and several other web services, reports the Times Online.
The Internet crackdown, which began at 5pm local time on...
