{"id":44,"date":"2007-05-20T22:05:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hakawitech.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/20\/report-net-censorship-increases-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T20:52:45","slug":"report-net-censorship-increases-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualactivism.org\/education\/report-net-censorship-increases-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"report: net censorship increases around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6665945.stm#list\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/opennet.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Net Initiative<\/a> at Harvard University in the US has just released a report about internet censorship across the globe. It claims that net censorship has increased and that the problem about that is that net filtering always happens in the dark. There is no way one can find what is being filtered or what is being censored. Evidence of this censorship was found in the following countries: Azerbaijan,   Bahrain, Burma\/Myanmar, China, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, UAE, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the report conducted research in the MENA region and it states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/opennet.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hakawitech.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/filteringmap.gif\" alt=\"filteringmap.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>ONI conducted in-country testing for Internet filtering in sixteen countries in the North Africa and Middle East region. .. eight of these countries broadly filter online content: Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Another four\u2014Bahrain, Jordan, Libya, and Morocco\u2014carry out selective filtering of a smaller number of Web sites. ONI found no evidence of consistent technical filtering used to deny access to online content in Algiers, Egypt, Iraq, or Israel. [<a href=\"http:\/\/opennet.net\/research\/regions\/mena\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that the Open Net Initiative at Harvard University in the US has just released a report about internet censorship across the globe. 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