Citizen Lab and ONI Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve has a great article in the most recent issue of First Monday on the Filtering Matrix Well done Nart!!
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Media Coverage of Citizen Lab and OpenNet Initiative at WSIS/Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative’s Tunisia Report generated considerable coverage, a lot of which features The Citizen Lab’s very own Director of Technical Research, Nart Villeneuve. Nart compiled the list below for archival purposes.
BBC – Controversy dogs UN net gathering (pdf)
BBC – Tunisia slated over net controls (pdf)
BBC – Hungry for net freedom in Tunisia (pdf)
Reuters – Rights group faults Tunisia on Internet censorship (pdf)
Times Online – Read all about it. But be quick (pdf)
VOA – Information Summit Closes Amid Criticism of Tunisian Censorship (pdf)
Inter Press Service – Activists Give a Crash Course in Overcoming Electronic Hurdles
South China Morning Post – TUNISIA: Study says Tunisia centralises web filtering
Le Monde – Les ONG accusent quinze Etats de censurer la liberté d’expression sur Internet (pdf)
Libération – «Le spectre du filtrage n’a jamais été aussi large» (pdf)
OpenNet Initiative – World Summit Opening in a Closed Society: Tunisia’s Approach to Internet Filtering Contradicts the Objectives of an ‘Open’ Information Society
News 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 will result in some significant attention being given to the detrimental consequences of unlawful censorship and surveillance practices.
Red 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.
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..
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Future Tense Radio Interview on ONI Report on Burma
I did an interview with Jon Gordon of American Public Radio’s Future Tense, which you can listen to here in real audio, on the ONI’s Burma Report.
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.
NY Times on Burma, and Toronto Star on ICANN
Some news reports today.
The first is from the NY Times and it covers the ONI’s report on Burma. Now reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. The second is a Toronto Star article on some of the controversies surrounding reform of ICANN.
GulfNews.com report on OpenNet Initiative's report on the UAE.
Another GulfNews.com report on the OpenNet Initiative’s report on Internet censorship in the United Arab Emeriates, which can be accessed here.
Vancouver Sun Article on "The Not So Free Internet."
Peter Wilson of the Vancouver Sun put together a lengthy feature article on the ways in which freedom of information exchange is being undermined on the Internet. I provided some background info and input.
The not-so-free Internet: From Chinese filtering to police access in Canada, governments are trying to regulate the Internet. But technology has a habit of bypassing everything regulators can throw at it.
Peter Wilson
Vancouver Sun
22 September 2005
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“The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.”
— John Gillmore, co-founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, circa 1992.
When Canadian Internet law expert Michael Geist tried to download his e-mail in a Beijing hotel room recently he ran into what he thought was nothing more than a technical hiccup.
“I’d be downloading and all of a sudden it would be cut off,” said Geist. “And at first I thought it was a coincidence and the network had a glitch.”