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The Ben Ali government is at the forefront of Web site obstruction, according to a report issued this year by OpenNet Initiative, a joint research and monitoring project by Harvard and Oxford ...
Cambridge, MA - The university-based OpenNet Initiative (ONI) today released “Internet Filtering in Singapore in 2004-2005,” a report that documents the degree and extent to which the Republic of ...
The OpenNet Initiative held its first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide. The conference was hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and held at St.
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has been documenting Internet filtering globally since 2003. Since that time, the number of countries found to be engaging in the ...
China is the world’s leading censor of the Internet, filtering web sites, blogs, e-mail, and online forums for sensitive political content, according to a study released on Thursday.
OpenNet Initiative did its research by connecting to the Anonymizer service from computers in Iran and evaluating which Google Web searches were blocked that theoretically should not be.
China was named among the worst offenders in blocking political websites (epa) May 18, 2007 -- A study released today found that government censorship of websites is increasing worldwide.
Faris said the OpenNet Initiative's researchers were wondering whether the authorities were going to "paint themselves into a corner," by merely providing unfettered access to journalists and no ...
The OpenNet Initiative, a consortium of college researchers that investigates the policing of the Internet by nations across the world, is nearing completion of its first global survey of Web ...
China has nine state-licensed Internet access providers (IAPs), each of which has at least one gateway pipe leading out of the country to a foreign Internet backbone. The IAPs connect internally ...
This map provides a visualization of the Iranian blogosphere in early 2009. Clusters of blogs are associated with different themes, ranging from reformist vs. conservative politics to Persian ...
CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains how a U.S. government agency supposedly fighting Internet censorship is quietly engaging in censorship itself.