Italy proposes harsh Internet filtering
Berkman’s Corinna di Gennaro posts about a proposed amendment in Italy that would require ISPs to block sites that permit postings that defend or instigate crimes. So, if there were a video on YouTube...
View ArticleAm I Blocked or Not?
The Berkman Center has launched Herdict.org, a site that lets you report sites you can’t reach, aggregating reports from every other Herdict user, to paint a picture of the openness of the Net. You can...
View ArticleSub-Saharan Africa: Generally an open Net
A new report from the Open Net Initiative (in which the Berkman Center is a participant) says that among Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Nigeria, only Ethiopia does any substantial amount of blocking of...
View ArticleUN’s Internet Governance Forum censors a mild mention of censorship
Holy cow! The Open Net Initiative, a group that monitors government filtering (= censorship) of the Internet held a book launch at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El...
View Article[berkman] Donnie Dong on separate Internets
Donnie Dong (Hao Dong), a Berkman Fellow, is giving a Berkman Tuesday lunchtime talk. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial...
View ArticleWashington court decides the Net is its content, not access to content
I’m not saying that there’s an obvious answer to this question, but a court in the state of Washington has decided that libraries have the right to filter Internet sites available on library Net...
View ArticleBerkman report on circumvention tools
The Berkman Center has released a new report on the use of tools to circumvent restrictions on the Internet imposed by countries that control their citizens’ access to the Net. This is important...
View ArticleAm I blocked or Not: Wisconsin version
From the Berkman Center: The Herdict team is looking for help testing the hypothesis that the Wisconsin Capitol building guest wireless blocks Websense’s “advocacy” category. (Background here, and see...
View ArticleStop the next bad “We fear the Internet” bill from the Senate
Rebecca MacKinnon has an excellent op-ed in the NY Times about the latest bill from the Senate that would censor the Internet. For a 5,000 word post on a topic I didn’t even know was a topic, there’s...
View ArticleEFF explains Twitter’s new take-down policy
There’s a good explainer by Eva Galperin of Twitter’s new policy on censoring tweets within countries that demand it, At BoingBoing, Xeni Jardin points to one particularly relevant fact: this applies...
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