Tag: Censorship

  • UAE Internet Filtering Study

    Internet Filtering in the United Arab Emirates in 2004-2005: A Country Study  The OpenNet Initiative announces the release of its study documenting Internet filtering in the United Arab Emirates. ONI tested over 8000 Web sites in the past six months, finding that UAE blocks material viewed as culturally inappropriate or offensive to the state’s perception…

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  • South Korean Internet Filtering Runs Amok

    Another bulletin from the OpenNet Initiative, this time on South Korean Internet filtering. It appears that the government’s attempt to block its citizens access to North Korean websites also mistakenly blocks some 3000 other sites as well.

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  • OpenNet Initiative Report on Iran

    We just released this report on Iranian censorship of the Internet, essentially verifying banned websites reported by RSF and stop.censoring.us.

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  • Announcing The Open Net Initiative!

    A new approach to university-based research striving to become the eyes and ears of digital censorship worldwide “The Open Net Initiative represents a new approach to university-based research,” says Cambridge University’s Rafal Rohozinski. “We fuse cutting-edge intelligence-derived techniques with a networked model of analysis that includes some of the brightest minds in this field –…

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