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✴︎ blogSingapore 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.
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✴︎ blogTelus 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.
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✴︎ blogToday Online Story on Iranian Internet Activists
I did an interview for an article in Today Online on Iranian Internet activists. Along with myself, there are interviews with Hoder and my colleague John Palfrey.
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✴︎ blogBBC, BBC5, and BBC Persian Interview
Among all of the press coverage of our recent Iran report, I thought I’d post this one from BBCPersian, which has an interview with me translated into Farsi. You can listen to the realaudio package here. As an addendum, here is a nice BBC story by Clark Boyd, with a great interview with Nart Villeneuve,…
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✴︎ blogIranian Internet Censorship Report ONI
We at the ONI have just released our report on Internet Filtering in Iran (in PDF format). Although it was known before, our report confirms the use of the US commercial filtering product, Smartfilter. Our report allso reveals patterns of Internet content targeted for filtering, including opposition websites, some lesbian and gay sites, and a…
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✴︎ blogCBC 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.
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✴︎ blogCNN, 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…
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✴︎ blogFuture 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.
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✴︎ blogChina Internet Filtering Report on ABC
A good interview (if I do say so myself) with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Asia Pacific program on our China Internet filtering report. You can listen to the interview here and read the transcript here. And of course our report can be found here.
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✴︎ blogWashington 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…