Arrests and legal action
ONI Blog: Lebanese Facebook Users Arrested for Defaming President
On June 28th, The Guardian, Menassat, L'Orient Le Jour, and the AFP reported that Lebanon arrested 3 individuals (Naim George Hanna, Antoine Youssef Ramia, Shebel Rajeh Qasab), and Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza issued an arrest warrant for a...
- Posted on 06/Jul/2010; tagged in Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Defamation
ONI Blog: Venezuelan news site accused of "attacking constitutional order" and "supporting a coup d’état"
On Sunday, Hugo Chávez ordered a federal investigation of one of the nation’s most widely read online news sources, Noticiero Digital.
On his live, weekly television program, Aló Presidente, Chávez accused Noticiero Digital of “attacking constitutional order” and “supporting a...
- Posted on 11/Jun/2010; tagged in Venezuela, Latin America, Arrests and legal action, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban; Bangladesh Cracks Down
As Pakistan lifted a two-week long ban on Facebook Monday, Bangladesh began blocking the site.
Both bans followed the creation of a Facebook group promoting "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," an event that encourages participants to submit artistic representations of the prophet...
- Posted on 01/Jun/2010; tagged in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Obscenity, Hate speech, Social filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: Venezuela Aims to Crack Down on "Media Crimes"
In ONI's in-depth 2007 study of Internet filtering and controls in Venezuela, we declared Internet use to be "not subject to extensive content restrictions" but remarked upon concerns that the "Chávez administration could institute Internet filtering in the near future."
It would...
- Posted on 06/Aug/2009; tagged in Venezuela, Latin America, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action
ONI Blog: Blogger acquitted in UK obscenity case
A case that could have redefined what UK citizens are allowed to post on the Internet ended yesterday after the prosecution failed to bring supporting evidence.
British blogger and civil servant Darryn Walker, who wrote an erotic story about the kidnapping, rape...
ONI Blog: The Internet and Political Censorship in Mexico
By Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Renata Ávila
In the past few months, an interesting debate has emerged in Mexico regarding the upcoming federal congressional elections after the electoral reform (a constitutional amendment) of 2007. According to various news reports, ...
- Posted on 05/Mar/2009; tagged in Mexico, Latin America, Arrests and legal action, Elections, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Can they hear me now? (On ICT regulations, governments, and transparency)
On February 11, Vodafone's global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, revealed that Vodafone handed over communications data to the Egyptian authorities in response to government demands. This data may have been used to help identify rioters who were...
- Posted on 24/Feb/2009; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Human rights, Surveillance, Privacy, Data retention
ONI Blog: Google Executives on Trial in Italy
According to reports in the New York Times, four Google executives are on trial in Milan for charges of defamation and privacy violation regarding a video posted on Google’s Italian website.
The case pertains to a three-minute cell phone video...
- Posted on 10/Feb/2009; tagged in Italy, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Take-down, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Vietnam: Google, Yahoo! sought to regulate blogosphere
According to AFP news reports, Vietnam’s government wants to enlist Google and Yahoo! to help “regulate” the country’s blogging scene in an effort to stop “incorrect information” from being published online.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of activity in...
- Posted on 04/Dec/2008; tagged in Vietnam, Asia, Arrests and legal action, ONI, Political filtering, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Turkey's Capricious Filtering - Just Too Easy
Turkey has made headlines lately for its capricious filtering; although previous incidents involved filtering sites which insulted Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" in general, lately, the filtering seems nearly impulsive.
A site entitled List of websites blocked by Turkish Telecom...or how Turkey disgraces...
- Posted on 07/Nov/2008; tagged in Turkey, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Social filtering, Overblocking, IP blocking
