ONI Releases Report, "Internet Filtering in Iran"
Today the university-based OpenNet Initiative (ONI) released “Internet Filtering in Iran,” a report that documents the degree and extent to which the Iranian government controls the information environment in which its citizens live, including websites, blogs, email, and online discussion forums. The Berkman Center is one of three institutions involved in the OpenNet Initiative and three of the report's principal authors are here at the Berkman Center: John Palfrey, Jonathan Zittrain, and Derek Bambauer.
ONI’s research shows thatIran is among several countries in the Middle East that focuses its censorship efforts on expression through local language, like Farsi, and that Iran's Internet filtering system is one of the world's most substantial censorship regimes. Iran is also one of a growing number of countries, particularly in the Middle East region, that rely upon commercial software developed by for-profit United States companies to carry out its filtering regime.
Click here to read the report: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/iran/.
Click here to read the press release. If you are a member of the press and would like to speak to authors of the report, please call Amanda Michel at (617) 495-5236.
ONI’s research shows that
Click here to read the report: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/iran/.
Click here to read the press release. If you are a member of the press and would like to speak to authors of the report, please call Amanda Michel at (617) 495-5236.