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✴︎ blogFuture 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.
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✴︎ blogMore 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.
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✴︎ blogNY 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.
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✴︎ blogOpenNet 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.
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✴︎ blogGulfNews.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.
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✴︎ blogVancouver 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…
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✴︎ blogReporters 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…
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✴︎ blogGulfNews.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…
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✴︎ blogWIRED magazine infoporn pullout on ONI
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.
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✴︎ blogRadio 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…