Tag: Filtering
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✴︎ blogONI Bulletin on China’s Green Dam Filtering Software
The OpenNet Initiative has released a bulletin entitled “China’s Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC.” You can read more about it here. Executive Summary A recent directive by the Chinese government requires the installation of a specific filtering software product, Green Dam, with the publicly stated intent of protecting…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Conference May 18th 2007 Oxford
The OpenNet Initiative is holding its first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide. The conference will be hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and held at the University of Oxford on May 18, 2007. The conference is free of charge and open to the public. Results from the…
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✴︎ blogHoodwinking Censors
Published in the Toronto Star May 7, 2006 The Toronto Star has a lengthy front page article on the Citizen Lab, including profiles of me, Nart, and Michael Hull, and Psiphon, the software we are currently developing to allow individuals to get around Internet content filtering by connecting to servers in non-censored countries. Funny photos.…
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✴︎ blogONI Releases Belarus Internet Watch Report
The OpenNet Initiative today released “The Internet and Elections: the 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus.” The report presents the findings of ONI’s effort to monitor the Internet during Belarus’ recent presidential elections. Amidst fears that the authoritarian regime of President Aleksander Lukashenka was going to close down Belarus political cyberspace during the elections, ONI testing…
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✴︎ blogInternet Filtering in Yemen. Yet Another Western Filtering Story
We (the OpenNet Initiative) have just released our new report on Internet filtering in Yemen. Two things to note about this report. First, the Yemen report is the first that we are releasing in simultaneous English and Arabic translations. It is important to us to have an impact among the constituencies that matter most to…
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✴︎ blogUSA Today and Radio Canada International
The debates over corporate responsibility when it comes to Internet filtering and surveillance are growing in leaps and bounds, thanks in part to the work of the OpenNet Initiative. Kevin Maney’s column in USA Today points out that the recent debates over Google and Yahoo in China are only the tip of the iceberg, with…
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✴︎ blogChina Google Search Compare
In an effort to tailor its services to the requirements of China’s Internet filtering regime, Google announced last week that it had created a special version of its search engine for the China market, Google.cn. Our OpenNet Initiative team put together a neat little search comparison tool that you can access here that allows you…
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✴︎ blogNews coverage of our Tunisia Report…
Our report on Tunisia’s Internet filtering regime is picking up some news coverage. The Associated Press has a piece in wide circulation, and here is a great BBC story featuring ONI researchers Derek Bambauer and Nart Villeneuve. It appears that the spotlight on Tunisia’s filtering regime is taking center stage at WSIS. Hopefully the debates…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative has released our report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia. The press release can be found here. Here is the blurb: Drawing on open sources and a detailed year-long technical investigation, ONI research describes Tunisia’s aggressive targeting and blocking of on-line content, including political opposition Web sites, human rights groups, and sites that…
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✴︎ blogRed Herring Article on Iranian Internet Filtering
Red Herring has an article on Iranian content filtering that refers to our ONI report. There are some extensive quotations from Nart Villeneuve, Director of Technical Research at the Citizen Lab.