Government “Bird Dogs” on the Loose in Saudi Arabia
Saudi authorities, acting like government bird dogs, have been on the hunt for Twitter users lately.
Social Media
Categories
- Internet Monitor (79)
- IM Weekly (107)
- India (24)
- Social Media (114)
- Facebook (65)
- Arrests and Imprisonment (41)
- Censorship (108)
- Elections (23)
- Protests (40)
- Surveillance (58)
- United States (120)
- Myanmar (4)
- Jordan (3)
- Mongolia (1)
- Turkey (28)
- Iraq (16)
- United Kingdom (24)
- Russia (54)
- Bangladesh (5)
- Access (30)
- Youtube (12)
- China (69)
- Google (46)
- Terrorism and Extremism (26)
- Minority groups (6)
- Legislation (40)
- Internet Filtering (49)
- Iran (35)
- Morocco (4)
- France (14)
- Vietnam (11)
- Ethiopia (9)
- Cambodia (4)
- Brunei (2)
- Oman (3)
- Tajikistan (3)
- Azerbaijan (4)
- Rwanda (1)
- Syria (12)
- Armenia (1)
- Wikipedia (6)
- Twitter (45)
- Israel (5)
- Palestine (6)
- Yemen (7)
- United Arab Emirates (4)
- Qatar (2)
- DDoS (10)
- Baidu (1)
- Brazil (13)
- Zambia (1)
- Cybercrime (12)
- Madagascar (1)
- Cuba (10)
- Somalia (2)
- Malaysia (4)
- Ecuador (3)
- Microsoft (6)
- Ukraine (7)
- Thailand (15)
- Defamation (3)
- Estonia (1)
- Adobe (0)
- Hong Kong (9)
- Net Neutrality (18)
- Cyberespionage (5)
- Hungary (3)
- Venezuela (1)
- Germany (12)
- Spain (4)
- Sweden (2)
- Sri Lanka (2)
- Canada (7)
- Snowden (4)
- Bahrain (7)
- Week in Review (111)
- Mexico (5)
- Colombia (1)
- Panama (1)
- Australia (14)
- Nepal (1)
- Burundi (1)
- South Korea (6)
- Pakistan (16)
- Malawi (1)
- South Africa (5)
- Paraguay (1)
- United Nations (5)
- Nauru (1)
- Saudi Arabia (15)
- Cyberattacks (9)
- Reddit (3)
- North Korea (4)
- Belgium (3)
- Politwoops (1)
- Netherlands (3)
- Kuwait (3)
- Wikileaks (2)
- Kenya (6)
- Technical Filtering (12)
- Accidental Filtering (2)
- Internet Blackout (27)
- SMS (4)
- Infrastructure and Access (15)
- Memes (6)
- Singapore (6)
- Tunisia (2)
- Greece (2)
- Hacking (10)
- Taiwan (1)
- Egypt (17)
- Nigeria (2)
- Gambia (3)
- Zimbabwe (1)
- Finland (1)
- Yahoo! (2)
- Sudan (3)
- Internet Governance (8)
- Uruguay (1)
- Indonesia (7)
- Samsung (1)
- Translation (1)
- Cyberwarfare (3)
- Aaron Swartz (2)
- Julian Assange (1)
- Hacking Team (2)
- Hacker (6)
- Military (0)
- Cisco (1)
- Apple (6)
- Trans-Pacific Partnership (1)
- Afghanistan (2)
- Freedom House (5)
- Anonymous (1)
- ISIS (6)
- Austria (1)
- Mali (2)
- Cleveland (1)
- Africa (2)
- Japan (1)
- European Union (11)
- United Nations (2)
- Akamai (2)
- Italy (1)
- Geoblocking (1)
- Cats (1)
- Chechnya (1)
- Laos (1)
- LGBT (1)
- IM Research & Publications (5)
- Algeria (3)
- Georgia (1)
- Kurdistan (1)
- WhatsApp (6)
- Guns (0)
- Hashing (0)
- Tanzania (4)
- Trinidad & Tobago (1)
- Brexit (1)
- Uganda (3)
- Uzbekistan (2)
- Whatsapp (3)
- Bitcoin (1)
- Algorithm (1)
- Telegram (3)
- Olympics (1)
Culture Memes as Creative Resistance on Tiananmen Square Anniversary
A new torrent of words including "today" and "June 4" referencing the Tiananmen Square Anniversary have been blocked from Chinese social media as the country engages in its annual crackdown on Internet, also known as "Internet Maintenance Day." And though the Chinese government is running a sophisticated and tight censorship ship, they're having a bit harder time blocking memes.
#imweekly: May 29, 2013
New cable connections bump up Cuba's connectivity; Google may use blimps to build wifi networks in the developing world; Vkontakte temporarily blacklisted in Russia.
Protests in Inner Mongolia vs. Disney theme parks: social media censorship in China
A recent paper from Harvard University researchers Gary King, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts contains a neat "censorship magnitude" graph showing which types of social media posts are most and least likely to be taken down by Chinese censors.