irrepressible.info: A Fight Against Internet Censorship
0 Comments Published October 28th, 2006 in Technology.Amnesty International has set up a campaign to fight against Internet censorship. It is working with the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) to help raise awareness of internet censorship around the world.
The aim of the ONI is to document empirically patterns of Internet content filtering and surveillance worldwide behind national firewalls over an extended period of time. The ONI’s flash map of global filtering is the first result of such attempt.
The map shows that China, Iran, Myanmar, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Syria and Vietnam have the most pervasive Internet censorship in place. These countries implement commercial, enterprise-level filtering technology deployed at an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or near international gateway connections so that the filtering affects an entire country.
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