Our OpenNet Initiative partners at the Citizen Lab of the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto have created a new way to view censorship online: an updated interactive map. This new visualization tool is a central aspect of Amnesty International’s recently-launched campaign against online censorship called Irrepressible.info. CBC reports, as does BBC. (Bravo to … Read more
We at the OpenNet Initiative have built a search-compare tool to show what results you get on google.cn as compared to google.com. Be sure to try out “human rights” and some of the other sample searches we’ve got up there. (Special credits to Nart Villeneuve and Boris Anthony.)
We’ve had the pleasure of the past couple of days of hosting Markus Kummer, the coordinator of the Executive Secretariat for the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) at the United Nations. Mr. Kummer has given us the chance to hear about his plans for the WGIG over the next several months (he expects the … Read more