The most recent issue (Issue 13.09, September 05) of WIRED magazine has an Infoporn pullout based on the OpenNet Initiative’s most recent country reports. I can’t seem to find it online, however, so I guess you’ll just have to fork out the cash and buy it at your local newstand.
Author: Ron
Radio Canada International interview on the ONI
I did an interview with Victor Neremberg of Radio Canada International for his SciTech files show on the OpenNet Initiative project.
Although he mentions a couple of times that I am “the founder” of the ONI, as I make clear in the interview I am actually one of the founders, and the ONI itself is a large consortium. It is, nonetheless, a good interview, which you can listen to here or download here.
Singapore Controls the Net with Laws instead of Code
We at the OpenNet Initiative have just released our report on Internet filtering in Singapore. We found that while Singapore maintains stringent controls over its communications environment, it does so using old-fashioned laws instead of technical filters, as in countries like China or Iran.
Telus Internet Filtering
We have just released a new bulletin on Telus’s filtering of the Voices of Change website. As we note in our report, Telus’s filtering by IP produced massive collateral filtering of 766 unrelated websites.
There are various news articles on our report here, here, and here, and a Slashdot entry here.
CBC The Hour Interview on China's Internet Filtering Regime
I did an interview with George “Strombo” on his show CBC’s The Hour. You should be able to view the entire clip in QuickTime online here.
CNN, China Internet Filtering, Tunisia, and the ONI
CNN has a news item that is making the rounds about China’s new policy of shutting down unregistered websites and blogs. The story mentions our ONI report on China’s filtering of the Internet. Nart’s blog has an extended analysis of the issue that includes some speculation on the so called “night crawler” that China is reportedly using to track unregistered websites and blogs that should be read as well.
I have also just stumbled across a news item on Tunisia that mentions the ONI’s research on this country and has a lengthy interview with Nart.
Future Tense Radio Interview on China Internet
Here is a radio interview I did with Jon Gordon of Future Tense on the results of our China Internet Report. A good interview, I think, although I kind of sound like I’m talking from a bathroom. Maybe I should get myself a boom microphone for these interviews.
I’ve archived the show locally here
here.
China Internet Filtering Report on ABC
Washington Post story on our ONI Report
A solid story by Jonathan Krim of the Washington Post on our China Internet Filtering Study, which will be posted here tomorrow AM.
Web Censors In China Find Success
Falun Gong, Dalai Lama Among Blocked Topics
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 14, 2005; Page A20
The Chinese government is succeeding in broadly censoring what its citizens can read on the Internet, surprising many experts and denting U.S. government hopes that online access would be a quick catalyst for democratic political reform.
Internet users in the world’s most populous country are routinely blocked from sites featuring information on subjects such as Taiwanese independence, the Falun Gong movement, the Dalai Lama and the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, according to a study to be released today by a consortium of researchers from Harvard University, the University of Toronto and Cambridge University in England.
FOXNews and our Chinese Internet Censorship Report
FOXNews has an item about China’s regulatory and technical means employed to censor the Internet and stifle democratic dissent. Our soon to be released (as in tomorrow in Washington DC) ONI report on China’s Internet Filtering regime gets a brief mention.
Look for the report to be posted here tomorrow.