Tag: Filtering

  • Article de VOIR sur l'initiative d'OpenNet

    Le Far West moral qui prévaut sur Internet a permis à bon nombre d’entreprises vendant des systèmes de filtrage de sites pornographiques de faire des affaires d’or. Mais plusieurs d’entre elles préfèrent ne pas mentionner.. Vous pouvez trouver plus ici

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  • More 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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  • GulfNews.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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  • Singapore 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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  • Telus 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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  • Iranian 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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  • CBC 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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  • CNN, 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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  • China 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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  • Washington 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…

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