Author: Ron
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✴︎ blogIGF Forum Athens
I participated in the Internet Governance Forum today, on a panel with fellow panelists Ambassador David Gross of the United States, Julien Pain of Reporters Without Borders, Fred Tipson of Microsoft, and others. I was checking in through a videoconference connection, which made it a little difficult to hear what my fellow panelists were saying,…
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✴︎ blogBBC on Psiphon
There has been a few news items recently concerning some of our projects at the Citizen Lab. The BBC’s The World had a report on developments in Iranian censorship of the Internet, giving special attention to our soon-to-be-released (December 1st) software project, psiphon. The interview was with the Citizen Lab’s director of technical research, Nart…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative releases Report on Vietnam
In a recently issued report, ONI finds an increase in Internet censorship in Vietnam. Drawing from technical, legal, and political sources, ONI’s research finds that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is focusing its filtering on sites considered threatening to its one-party system. Furthermore, the technical sophistication, breadth, and effectiveness of Vietnam’s filtering are increasing with…
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✴︎ blogsTwo Interviews
Two recent interviews of mine have been published. The first is with the South Korean online publication Ohmynews, which discusses the Citizen Lab, the OpenNet Initiative and other projects in which I’m involved. The second is a transcript of a conversation with Sharon Hom of Human Rights in China and Nart Villeneuve and me on…
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✴︎ blogChicago Public Radio Interview on OpenNet Initiative, Citizen Lab, and Psiphon
I did a lengthy interview with Jerome McDonnell for Chicago Public Radio on Internet censorship. You can listen to it here, here, or locally here. God I love public radio — a 30 minute conversation!
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✴︎ blogA Censored Network: Iran
Richard Rogers’ Govcom.org foundation has been doing cutting edge research on online networks for years, producing visually rich outputs that show connections among major nodes, typically using their issue crawler tool. We at the OpenNet Initaitive have entered into a collaboration with Rogers and his team at Govcom.org to produce a series of issue-crawler maps…
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✴︎ blogBBC Interview
I did a BBC radio interview about a week ago as part of Amnesty’s irrepressible.info campaign. The interview starts at the 22 minute mark.
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✴︎ blogAmnesty Slams Cisco
The Amnesty Irrepressibe.info campaign is continuing to raise awareness and debate about Internet censorship practices around the world. Part of the purpose of the campaign is to focus on western companies who provide technologies of censorship and surveillance. There is a ZDNet UK article about the topic, with some of my comments on the matter,…
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✴︎ blogAmnesty International Irrepressible.info and ONI flash map
Amnesty International and the Observer have jointly launched a major global campaign on Internet censorship called Irrepressible.info to commemorate Amnesty’s 45th anniversary. The objective of the campaign is to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress. You can sign their pledge and post fragments of irrepressible information…
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✴︎ blogPsiphon FAQ
We’ve been fortunate to have a lot of advance press coverage of our Psiphon tool, which of course can be a double-edged sword. Journalists don’t always have an opportunity to get into the nitty gritty details and we’ve been fielding a lot of questions from interested observers. coders, well-wishers, and … well… not-so-well-wishers. We have…