Arrests and legal action
ONI Blog: Three Easy Steps to Block Sites in Turkey
In a clear instance of vexatious litigation, a Turkish court has blocked the Web site of prominent evolutionist Richard Dawkins following complaints from Islamic creationist and author Adnan Oktar. Oktar, who writes under the nom de plume Harun Yahya, filed...
- Posted on 25/Sep/2008; tagged in Turkey, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Defamation, Take-down, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Speaking Out in Malaysia
The arrest of blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act on September 12, just as his website Malaysia Today (http://mt.m2day.org/) was reported to be unblocked, provides an ominous reminder that there may be more effective ways of silencing...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2008; tagged in Malaysia, Asia, Arrests and legal action, Publications, Political filtering, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Italy blocks The Pirate Bay, inadvertantly increasing traffic to the site
On July 14, the International Herald Tribune reported that an Italian judge had ordered all ISPs in that country to filter access to The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular file-sharing sites.
The Pirate Bay, based in Sweden, allows...
ONI Blog: Can The Government Censor Wireless Broadband?
Free wireless broadband has been a goal of academics, activists, and politicians for years, and M2Z, a new start-up led by former FCC official John Muleta might give it to them. Unfortunately, it will not be the broadband...
- Posted on 30/Jun/2008; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Arrests and legal action, Obscenity
ONI Blog: Lawsuit initiated over shutdown of Chinese BBS on Hepatitis-B Virus
On November 20, 2007, the Beijing Communications Administration (BCA) ordered the closure of a popular Internet forum on the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). The Hepatitis B Camp Network of China [?????? ] (http://hbvhbv.com/) was started in September 2001 and has...
ONI Blog: Belgian ISP appeals anti-piracy injunction mandating filtering
The ISP Scarlet (formerly Tiscali SA) has appealed a Belgian court’s order to implement a filtering mechanism as part of granting an injunction against music piracy. On June 29, 2007, the Brussels Court of First Instance (decision available here) ordered...
- Posted on 31/Jul/2007; tagged in Europe, Arrests and legal action
