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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: United States: Is Filtering in Schools the Answer?
Is filtering in schools the answer? That's the question being asked across the United States. Although it is required by federal law to filter pornographic and other obscene content, many K-12 schools are choosing to also filter social networks, video...
- Posted on 01/Sep/2009; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Obscenity, Social filtering, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: Malaysia considers, backs down from national Internet filter
Last week Malaysia's Information, Communications and Culture Minister Dr. Rais Yatim announced that the country would consider implementing a nationwide Internet filtering plan similar to China's Green Dam. This week, the Prime Minister pulled an about face, claiming there...
- Posted on 13/Aug/2009; tagged in Malaysia, Asia, Legislation, Obscenity, Cybercrime and security, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Blogger acquitted in UK obscenity case
A case that could have redefined what UK citizens are allowed to post on the Internet ended yesterday after the prosecution failed to bring supporting evidence.
British blogger and civil servant Darryn Walker, who wrote an erotic story about the kidnapping, rape...
ONI Blog: Germany Passes Legislation to Block Child Pornography
First it was the UK, then Australia: Over the past year, ONI has witnessed consideration of filtering schemes by several Western countries, as well as the leaking of "secret block lists" for a few others (such as Norway and...
ONI Blog: Egypt Bans Pornography Web sites
An Egyptian court has recently banned pornography Web sites, labeling them "venomous and vile," according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Egypt, which strictly bans offline pornography, already has a regulation which requires Internet cafe users to sign a form saying...
- Posted on 12/May/2009; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Circumvention, Social filtering
ONI Blog: UAE Seeks Feedback On Flickr Filtering
In an unprecedented move, the Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the UAE is giving users the opportunity to submit feedback over the blocking a number of sites, including Flickr. Internet Service Provider (ISP) du, followed larger ISP...
- Posted on 30/Mar/2009; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Dubai police chief wages war on youtube
Commander-in-Chief of Dubai police Lt General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim called (full article in Arabic , English summary) this week for the blocking of the social networking Web site youtube because, he said, the site contains religiously inappropriate...
- Posted on 10/Mar/2009; tagged in United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Hate speech, Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: No Internet Porn in Belarus
Not a single porn website could be found in the Belarus part of the Internet, according to the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs [ru]. The head of the ministry’s high technology crime counteraction unit said that most porn is located on...
- Posted on 25/Feb/2009; tagged in Belarus, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Obscenity, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Secret Censorship in Denmark
While you were sleeping, Wikileaks released yet another report on Internet filtering...But this time the filtering is not in China, or Thailand, or Saudi Arabia...this time, it's in Denmark.
The report states that Denmark chooses to filter child pornography rather than face...
