As part of our first-ever OpenNet Initiative conference in May, we are participating in a debate at the Oxford Union. The resolution is: “This House believes that the Internet is the greatest force for Democratisation in the World.”
The OpenNet Initiative is holding its first-ever conference on May 18 in Oxford, England, at the Oxford Internet Institute. The conference is free and open to the public, but you must register and the event is capped at 100 participants. You can register on this wiki. We will be sharing the initial results of our … Read more
Congratulations to Professor Ron Deibert (a/k/a “profd”) and his entire Citizen Lab team on today’s release of their new application, psiphon. The festivities here in Toronto include lectures at noon, as part of Protect the Net – Toronto, and then the world-wide release of the application from 3 – 7 p.m., all at the Munk … Read more
We’ve just gathered a key subset of our global team of ONI researchers to review the filtering data we’ve gathered from around the world. WIRED’s Mark Anderson sat in on part of the meetings and has a sneak peek. We’ll have a book out on this topic come Springtime.
Our pal Nart at the Citizen Lab has a post about the issue of ISP blocking of web sites, with a focus on Canada, and its relationship to state-mandated blocking, of the sort that we (together) cover via the OpenNet Initiative.
A week or so ago, we at the Berkman Center joined our friends and colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute in hosting an academic pre-briefing related to the Internet Governance Forum. The IGF, announced in July by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, is the process and institution that has grown out of the two … Read more
An extraordinary piece in the LAT, (via John Bracken), on the crackdown on free expression in China. The story’s lead, written by Mark Magnier, goes like this: “BEIJING — With their control over newspapers, television, magazines and the Internet secure, censors in China are now turning their attention to the dim recesses of the nation’s … Read more
We at the OpenNet Initiative today released a bulletin on restrictions placed by the Chinese state on online news publishers. In summary: “China’s new regulations for Internet news content significantly tighten prior requirements that govern all news-related content transmitted through Internet-based technologies. The regulations target not only existing news organizations, but also individuals and groups … Read more
In partnership with the OpenNet Initiative (particularly Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and the fabulous Citizen Lab crew), Richard Rogers and Govcom have developed a cool visual of how online censorship works in Iran. The net result of a link analysis the team performed was the identification of 30 sites found to be blocked that we … Read more
Her musings of a blocked bloggerette — whether it’s true or not that she is blocked by the ISU — is a useful tale of what it is liked to be filted in Saudi.