Red Herring has an article on Iranian content filtering that refers to our ONI report. There are some extensive quotations from Nart Villeneuve, Director of Technical Research at the Citizen Lab.
Author: Ron
Article de VOIR sur l'initiative d'OpenNet
Le Far West moral qui prévaut sur Internet a permis à bon nombre d’entreprises vendant des systèmes de filtrage de sites pornographiques de faire des affaires d’or. Mais plusieurs d’entre elles préfèrent ne pas mentionner..
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Future Tense Radio Interview on ONI Report on Burma
I did an interview with Jon Gordon of American Public Radio’s Future Tense, which you can listen to here in real audio, on the ONI’s Burma Report.
More coverage and fallout of our Burma Report
There has been considerable news coverage and controversy around the release of the ONI’s Internet Filtering in Burma Report. Here is an Information Week article that is not just a reproduction of the Associated Press story. And Nart did up a nice little piece on his blog about Fortinet’s tangled web.
NY Times on Burma, and Toronto Star on ICANN
Some news reports today.
The first is from the NY Times and it covers the ONI’s report on Burma. Now reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. The second is a Toronto Star article on some of the controversies surrounding reform of ICANN.
OpenNet Initiative Report on Burma released today…
We have just released our report on Internet Filtering in Burma. Among the findings is that the software Burma uses to censor the Internet is provided by a US corporation, Fortinet. Our press release can be downloaded here.
GulfNews.com report on OpenNet Initiative's report on the UAE.
Another GulfNews.com report on the OpenNet Initiative’s report on Internet censorship in the United Arab Emeriates, which can be accessed here.
Vancouver Sun Article on "The Not So Free Internet."
Peter Wilson of the Vancouver Sun put together a lengthy feature article on the ways in which freedom of information exchange is being undermined on the Internet. I provided some background info and input.
The not-so-free Internet: From Chinese filtering to police access in Canada, governments are trying to regulate the Internet. But technology has a habit of bypassing everything regulators can throw at it.
Peter Wilson
Vancouver Sun
22 September 2005
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“The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.”
— John Gillmore, co-founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, circa 1992.
When Canadian Internet law expert Michael Geist tried to download his e-mail in a Beijing hotel room recently he ran into what he thought was nothing more than a technical hiccup.
“I’d be downloading and all of a sudden it would be cut off,” said Geist. “And at first I thought it was a coincidence and the network had a glitch.”
Reporters Without Borders Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Reporters Without Borders has just released their very useful Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.
The Citizen Lab contributed two chapters, one a general guide to the Civiblog, and a second chapter by Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve on Technical Ways to Get Around Censorship. Congratulations
Julien Pain and all of the people at RSF for what promises to be a timely and very useful contribution.
GulfNews.com Report on ONI
There is a story in GulfNews about the ONI’s country report on Internet Filtering in the United Arab Emirates. Thanks to Neil Hrab for forwarding and pointing that out.
I must say, though, that we certainly do not “praise” the UAE, that’s
for sure. I don’t know where the guy got that from. All we said is that
there is only slight blocking of political material (including by the
way, the entire .il domain, which is all of Israel). That’s pretty bad
as far as I’m concerned. I’m certainly not going to praise a regime
that does that, let alone uses Smartfilter to censor.
Makes you wonder what type of editorial controls go into stories like that in UAE, eh?