Berkman In the News

Today's Canadian technology newspaper, IT Business, featured the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) in "OpenNet Initiative exposes online political pressure" (of which the Berkman Center is a partner). In the past year ONI has reported on Internet filtering in China, Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia, Vietnam, Burma, and Singapore. To see the big picture, check out the OpenNet Initiative's global filtering map.

Berkman fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discusses a proposed law in China requiring registration for bloggers in the Red Herring article, "Anonymity Ending in China Blogs?"

Critics naturally view an end to anonymity as a threat to privacy and a further curb on free speech. But would additional censorial safeguards be necessary, or effective? Neither, said Rebecca MacKinnon, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and a close observer of the Chinese blogging scene. “Chinese domestic blog-hosting companies already employ dozens if not hundreds of people to censor content on the blogs they host—if not delete offending blogs altogether,” she said. “I guess the authorities don’t feel they’re doing a thorough enough job.”

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