Information Policy

Iran to Spend $36 Million on Internet “Smart Filtering,” to No Avail

The Iranian government, in a joint project with several domestic universities, is spending $36 million to develop what it calls “smart filtering” in order to strengthen its Internet censorship capabilities.

Smart filtering refers to the selective blocking of content within a website, as opposed to the complete blocking or shutting down of an entire website.

UMass security expert receives $541,458 grant to combat Internet censorship

AMHERST – Growing up in Iran, College of Information and Computer Sciences assistant professor Amir Houmansadr saw first hand what Internet censorship meant.

Now with a five-year, $581,458 Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of Massachusetts Internet security expert hopes to help combat Internet censorship globally by analyzing current censor-circumvention systems and designing a model that will lead to new anti-blocking tools.

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, Google, others to host event

According to reports, delegates from Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda Zimbabwe, and a host of other countries will meet on March 8 and 9 for the 2016 Internet Freedom Forum, in Abuja, Nigeria, with the theme "Rights are rights, Online or Offline".

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Russia has already blocked over 10,000 internet sites, describing them as propaganda for terrorism or pornography. But pages critical of the Kremlin have also been "deleted"

The freedom of the internet is a thorn in many a politician's side. Some even talk about the West trying to force homosexual propaganda on Russia. The Kremlin has justified its actions as providing security for domestic users and invoked Russian patriotism. Many activists see them as government censorship, saying that, along with the other mass media, now the internet is to be under Kremlin control.

Source: http://www.dw.com/en/internet-censorship-in-russia/a-19035168

The modern medium of the web is an open-sourced, democratic world in which equality is an ideal, which is why what is most important is Internet freedom

 

What would have gone wrong if India’s telecom regulator Trai had decided to support programmes like Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel’s Zero Rating instead of issuing the regulation that prohibits discriminatory tariffs? Here are possible scenarios to look at in case the discriminatory tarrifs were allowed as they are in some countries.

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Internet Censorship in Russia

Russia has already blocked over 10,000 internet sites, describing them as propaganda for terrorism or pornography. But pages critical of the Kremlin have also been "deleted"

The freedom of the internet is a thorn in many a politician's side. Some even talk about the West trying to force homosexual propaganda on Russia. The Kremlin has justified its actions as providing security for domestic users and invoked Russian patriotism. Many activists see them as government censorship, saying that, along with the other mass media, now the internet is to be under Kremlin control.

Source: http://www.dw.com/en/internet-censorship-in-russia/a-19035168

Internet freedom

The modern medium of the web is an open-sourced, democratic world in which equality is an ideal, which is why what is most important is Internet freedom

 

What would have gone wrong if India’s telecom regulator Trai had decided to support programmes like Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel’s Zero Rating instead of issuing the regulation that prohibits discriminatory tariffs? Here are possible scenarios to look at in case the discriminatory tarrifs were allowed as they are in some countries.

Continue reading "Internet freedom" »