Tag: Censorship
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✴︎ blogPsiphon Pstops Pcensorship
Published in NOW Magazine July 12 – 18, 2007 Toronto-developed software opens the Net to restricted surfers By DAVID SILVERBERG In Saudi Arabia, net users can’t get access to websites of opposition groups. Jordan and Bahrain both briefly banned Google Earth, citing security concerns. The Chinese government doesn’t let netizens get to the BBC site…
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✴︎ blogRadio Free Europe
June 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) – State censorship of the Internet is growing and the techniques used are becoming increasingly sophisticated, according to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a partnership of British, US, and Canadian universities. The group has released an initial list of countries engaged in Internet censorship, which includes China, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. The…
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✴︎ blogFinancial Times and CNN International
I am posting two recent news items for the archive. The first is a brief story (with an interesting looking map) from the Financial Times on Internet censorship. The second is an older interview I did on December 1st with CNN International about psiphon. The interview has been posted on youtube here.
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✴︎ blogCBC Dispatches
CBC radio is currently focusing its programming around censorship, and as part of that effort I was interviewed on CBC Dispatches. My interview is archived here and the podcast can be downloaded here
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✴︎ blogNewsforge Article about Psiphon
An excellent article about psiphon in Newsforge. As the author says, “Psiphon is not designed to solve all secure Web browsing dilemmas. Rather, it is a means by which those in uncensored countries can assist specific individuals in censored countries access blocked Web content — without placing any technical (or personal security) burden on those…
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✴︎ blogEcommerce and Vancouver Sun
ecommerce on the ONI Vancouver Sun on Internet censorship in China
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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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✴︎ 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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✴︎ 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,…