Intermediary Censorship
ONI Blog: Temporary block on LiveJournal in Russia exemplifies overblocking
A regional Russian Internet service provider temporarily blocked the entire Russian LiveJournal site in response to a court order to block one blog on the platform. The incident illustrates the probability of overblocking, especially when targeting an IP address. ...
- Posted on 06/Aug/2012; tagged in Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Intermediary Censorship, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 3, 2012
Tajikistan blocked a number of news websites and YouTube on Monday following deadly clashes last week between security forces and armed rebels in an eastern autonomous region of the Central Asian republic. Among the blocked websites were the Russian...
- Posted on 03/Aug/2012; tagged in United States of America, Tajikistan, United States/Canada, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Threats to the Open Net, Intermediary Censorship, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering
ONI Blog: Sudan continues crackdown of online news during protests
Since we blogged about the rumored Internet blackout in Sudan a couple of weeks ago, the Sudanese government continues to crack down on online news sites that report on the ongoing clashes between riot police and University of Khartoum students...
- Posted on 13/Jul/2012; tagged in Sudan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Intermediary Censorship, Political filtering, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 29, 2012
In response to protests over recent austerity measures that began last week, the Sudanese government has attempted to choke the press by arresting journalists and censoring news sources. Even as online media is being used to circumvent censorship measures, activists who...
- Posted on 29/Jun/2012; tagged in Sudan, New Zealand, Australia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Australia/New Zealand, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Privacy, Threats to the Open Net, Intermediary Censorship, Internet tools filtering
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: Protests in Belarus provoke Internet censorship, temporary outages
Protests have erupted in Belarus in response to immense inflation, political corruption, and media censorship; these protests have largely been organized online and, over the past few weeks, have resulted in increased Internet censorship.
In a country where government-regulated media...
- Posted on 15/Jul/2011; tagged in Belarus, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Take-down, Intermediary Censorship
ONI Blog: Italian Agency Presses On With Internet Filtering Powers
Despite protests, the Italian Communications Authority (AgCom) yesterday approved a draft regulation that would give it powers to take down websites and filter the Internet over alleged copyright infringement without prior judicial oversight. The draft will now enter a 60 day period...
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
