By 2012, the
OpenNet Initiative - a joint project of several academic institutions including Harvard University and the University of Toronto - estimated that 47% of the world's Internet users were viewing the Internet through a fractured lens; that is, they were experiencing Internet censorship.
He was a co-founder and a principal investigator of the
OpenNet Initiative (2003-2014) and Information Warfare Monitor (2003-2012) projects.
In addition, data from the National Institute for Statistical Information indicate that only 16% of Peruvian households had an Internet connection, whereas 56% of Peruvians were able to access the Internet in 2011 (
OpenNet Initiative, 2013).
Furthermore, in other specifications we condition NETUSERS on the Internet filtering scores provided by the
OpenNet Initiative (ONI) (2013).
TEHRAN (FNA)-
OpenNet Initiative, a partnership between the University of Toronto in Canada, Harvard Law School in the US, and the University of Cambridge in the UK, says its researchers have remotely accessed computers within Iran's internet borders to test security restrictions displayed by the government and prove that the Islamic Republic violates human rights.
According to
OpenNet Initiative, a non-governmental organization that works to expose Internet filtering and surveillance practices around the world, Yemeni authorities enforce physical restrictions in Internet cafes.
[6] Despite the very limited diffusion of the Internet among Ethiopian citizens, in 2006 the government began to actively filter the websites of opposition groups and human rights organizations, specifically targeting those that gathered the voices of Ethiopians living abroad (
Opennet Initiative, 2007).
(74) The Saudi government also focuses its Internet regulation heavily on quashing dissent, prohibiting the publication or accessing of "anything contrary to the state or its system." (75) According to
OpenNet Initiative, Saudi Arabia has also extensively filtered sites that provide tools to circumvent its national network, including Tot.
Positioned in the core of China's strategy toward Internet control is "one of the largest and most sophisticated filtering systems in the world", as observed by the
OpenNet Initiative (2009).
(95) But even the Internet in the United States is far from unregulated, and, according to
OpenNet Initiative, "the United States may be among the most aggressive states in the world in terms of listening to online conversations." (96) Furthermore, China is not the only country whose laws clash with the United States' regarding censoring information on the Internet.