June 2017 archive

#EgyptCensors: Evidence of recent censorship events in Egypt

Starting on May 24th, the Egyptian government ordered ISPs to block at least 21 news websites on the grounds of “supporting terrorism and spreading lies”. In an attempt to understand which sites were blocked and how, ooniprobe network measurement software – designed to examine internet censorship – was run in three local vantage points in …

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OONI – Descubriendo la censura en Internet en todo el mundo

I wrote this post about OONI in English and it was translated to Spanish.Read the post (in Spanish) here.Publisher: Oficina Antivigilancia, Coding RightsPublication date: 5th May 2017

The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia

 New OONI network measurement data collected from 21 local vantage points confirms the blocking of 161 websites in Indonesia between 22nd June 2016 to 1st March 2017. Indonesian ISPs appear to be implementing block pages primarily through DNS hijacking.Vimeo and Reddit were found to be blocked in some networks in Indonesia, even though their ban …

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