Comments on: OpenNet Initiative Study, New Web Site Released

By: Pedro Sardinha

Pedro Sardinha — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:31:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing the opennet link.

By: Open Mind » Blog-Archiv » OpenNet Initiative: 25 von 41 Ländern zensurieren das Internet

Mon, 21 May 2007 05:55:08 +0000

[...] Wie eine kürzlich vorgestellte Untersuchung der OpenNet Initiative zeigt, ist die Zensur des Internets weit verbreitet. Zudem nimmt die Zensur zu, wie John Palfrey von der Harvard Law School schreibt: “The headline of the study is a substantial growth in the scale, scope and sophistication of Internet filtering worldwide, in 25 of the 41 states in which we tested.” [...]

By: Law and Information » Blog Archive » Towards A Best Practice Approach to Internet Filtering? First Thoughts After Release of Global ONI Survey

Sat, 19 May 2007 01:09:20 +0000

[...] In the closing session, Professor John Palfrey, one of the principle investigators (check out his blog), was kind enough to put me on spot and ask for my take away points. Given the complexity of the information ecosystem including its diverse filtering regimes, it seems hard to come up with any kind of conclusion at this early stage. However, among the probably trickiest problems we might want to think about is the question whether we – as researchers – want and should contribute to the development of some sort of best practice model of speech control on the Internet – a model aimed at “minimizing” the harm done to free speech values in a world where filtering and blocking is likely to continue to exist-, or whether such an endeavor would be counterproductive under any circumstances, either because it would be immediately hijacked by governments to legitimize filtering or used by repressive regimes to make filtering more effective. [...]