Tag Archive for ‘firewall’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'firewall'

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The Great Firewall of China and its Sri Lanka equivalent

Rohan Samarajiva

on February 4, 2008

It is well known that China polices the Internet content that its citizens can access. The story below talks about a growing movement within China that seeks to challenge these arbitrary restrictions on simple information retrieval and publishing actions. A 17-year old girl’s comment “I don’t know if it’s better to speak out or keep silent, but if everyone keeps silent, the truth will be buried,” seems particularly powerful to me and motivated me to write this post.

Several months ago, the government of Sri Lanka blocked access to Tamil Net, a website used by many, including almost all the important journalists, to find out the other side of our one-sided news stories on the war. Of course, this was easily circumvented by those who wanted…

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Tags: Burma, CDMA, China, Congress, Faces Online Rebels - New York Times, firewall, Guangdong Province, Internet content, Kangxi, Pan Liang, phone networks, SMS, Sri Lanka, Web site operator, YouTube.

Burning down Myanmar’s Internet firewall

Tahani Iqbal

on September 25, 2007

Asia Times Online

Most Internet accounts in Myanmar are designed to provide access only to the limited Myanmar intranet, and the authorities block access to popular e-mail services such as Gmail and Hotmail. According to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a joint research project on Internet censorship issues headed by Harvard University, Myanmar’s Internet-censorship regime as of 2005 was among the “most extensive” in the world.

The research noted that the Myanmar government “maintains the capability to conduct surveillance of communication methods such as e-mail, and to block users from viewing websites of political opposition groups and organizations working for democratic change in Burma”. An ONI-conducted survey of websites containing material known to be sensitive to the regime found in 2005 that 84% of the pages they tested…

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Tags: Burma, e-mail services, firewall, Fortinet, Harvard University, Internet firewall Asia Times Online, Internet-censorship regime, Myanmar, Myanmar government, technology*, United States.

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