January 12th, 2010 | by jz | published in Future of the Internet, filtering | 33 Comments
Google announced today that it would cease (well, phase out) censoring the results in google.cn, the Chinese-language version of its famed search engine. It’s a pretty stunning move, both in its fact and in its execution. First, the announcement of “A new approach to China” may appear to have buried the lede. The lion’s share [...]
November 15th, 2009 | by jz | published in censorship, filtering | 4 Comments
“The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China’s famous ‘Great Firewall of China’ is one of the first national Internet filtering systems.”
That’s it. Its presence on a poster advertising the OpenNet Initiative’s academic book Access Controlled was enough to deem it prohibited by UN security forces at [...]
June 16th, 2009 | by jz | published in Future of the Internet, filtering, opennet initiative | 1 Comment
We’ve just released our OpenNet Initiative 2009 study of Internet censorship in Iran, including new data from the most recent rounds of testing there. We’ll try to augment some of the findings there with data coming in over the past few days, including reports to the Herdict Web network blockage tool.
If you’re finding there are [...]
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