Posted on December 26th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Australia’s Labor government has delayed testing its proposed mandatory Internet filtering system until mid-January 2009, when it will announce which ISPs are taking part. The Associated Press has good coverage of the controversy over censorship in Oz. You can download my paper analyzing Australia’s filtering proposal from SSRN.
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Filed under: Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Scholarship, international
Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Australia’s Labor-led government won office promising to prevent access to unlawful content, such as child pornography, on the Internet. Now, the country is about to launch the second round of its filtering tests, amid reports that trials will attempt to block peer-to-peer (P2P) and BitTorrent along with child porn and other sensitive content. The filtering [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, international
Posted on December 20th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
[Update 22 Dec. 2008, 3:30PM: Apparently the site is, once again, available. Again, it's hard to tell if China's Internet censors reversed themselves, or corrected a mistake, or simply wanted to remind the Times that access to China's users is not automatic (pour encourager les autres, as Voltaire wrote).]
Expats will despair: the New York Times [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, international
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
[Update Oct. 3 5:45PM - Skype's president responds, and says Skype was unaware of TOM's monitoring. But this is why tech firms partner with domestic Chinese firms: to handle uncomfortable requests such as filtering and surveillance... (via Wired)]
The New York Times reports on some terrific research done by my former ONI colleague Nart Villeneuve - [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Encryption, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Scholarship, Security, Software, international
Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
The Washington Post has a great piece about the InfoWar Monitor project, including interviews with my former ONI colleagues Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski. Cyberwar is a new, murky, and fascinating zone of interstate conflict. Most interestingly, it’s one where combat is outsourced: hackers and denial of service attacks can come from volunteers and on-line [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Security, international, national security
Posted on August 13th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Building on Derek’s recent post about the International Olympic Committee’s complicity in censorship of the internet in China:
Slashdot features an item about a takedown notice from the IOC demanding that YouTube remove video of a Tibet-related protest at the Chinese Consulate in New York. (The video is still available on Vimeo.) The protesters [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Search Engines, Trademarks, international
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
In the not-exactly-a-surprise category: China announced that, despite the IOC’s reassurances, it would filter the Internet connections available to journalists. What’s unavailable? The usual: sites criticizing China’s atrocious human rights record, or discussing Taiwan, or telling people how to get around China’s censorship. (See ONI’s complete report for the full list of what’s off-limits in [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Open Access, international
Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Update: I should have read more carefully: Time Warner and Verizon confirmed they’re not going to block any Web sites. I’ve changed text below to reflect that.
Yesterday, I posted a quick analysis of the new policy (using the methodology I propose in a new draft paper) undertaken by Sprint, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable at [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Search Engines, international
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Filtering: it’s not just for China anymore. (Or Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea…) Internet censorship via technological means is a growing trend, and now it’s surfaced in the U.S. Three major ISPs have agreed, under pressure from New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, to block access to Usenet groups and Web [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, international
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Google, Yahoo!, and Cisco faced questions from the subcommittee on human rights (part of the Senate Judiciary Committee) about their role in China’s Internet censorship system. Cisco was in particularly hot water after an internal document surfaced - it discusses how Cisco technology can “Combat ‘Falun Gong’ evil religion and other hostiles.” Senator Dick Durbin [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Corporate Law, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Search Engines, international