Tag: Open Net Initiative
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✴︎ blogFOXNews and our Chinese Internet Censorship Report
FOXNews has an item about China’s regulatory and technical means employed to censor the Internet and stifle democratic dissent. Our soon to be released (as in tomorrow in Washington DC) ONI report on China’s Internet Filtering regime gets a brief mention. Look for the report to be posted here tomorrow.
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✴︎ blogONI to Present China Report before US Congressional Committee
We will be releasing our upcoming report on China’s Internet censorship regime before a US Congressional Committee this coming Thursday. Here is the media advisory. Our own Nart Villeneuve will be presenting along with our Harvard colleagues John Palfrey and Derek Bambauer. Does anyone know if it is televised or streamed online?
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✴︎ blogBahrain Internet Censorship Report Released
The OpenNet Initiatives testing of more than 6,000 sites in Bahrain revealed only eight sites blocked. Three were pornographic; the others covered political and religious topics. In each case, sites with similar content remained accessible, and altering the requested URL slightly made several filtered sites available. Bahrain’s legal system includes extensive potential controls of media,…
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✴︎ blogForeign Policy Article on Saudi Black Market
I honestly can’t remember giving this interview, but I must have because there’s a quotation that sounds like something I’d say in this short Foreign Policy article on a black market for net access in Saudi Arabia. Two notes of clarification: I’m not the Exec Director of the OpenNet Initiative. There isn’t one. I’m one…
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✴︎ blogUAE 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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✴︎ blogMore Kyrgyz Internet Hacking and DDOS attacks
We released two more press releases on the OpenNet Initiative’s ongoing investigations into the Kyrgyz Internet. Hard to disentangle what exactly is going on. Nart has some further information. And we’ll release a full report before the end of March.
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✴︎ blogHacking the Kyrgyz Internet during Parliamentary Elections
Our ONI team has just put out this press release on the Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, which we monitored from afar and in the field. Websites belonging to political parties and independent media were subject to unexplained technical failures and deliberate hacking that suggest a deliberate attempt to interfere with the functioning of the Internet during…
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✴︎ blogSouth 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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✴︎ blogChinese Blogs Filtered
Our OpenNet Initiative project has just released another Bulletin on the filtering of blogs in China. It appears that there is variation among the blog providers, and we point out some ways in which the filtering systems, in their present form, can be easily circumvented.
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative News Coverage in the NY Times and TechNews
The OpenNet Initiative has been getting some good recent press, with a mention of our research on China in the NY Times and a comment by the Citizen Lab’s Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve in TechNewsWorld.