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Russian-language Wikipedia goes dark to protest Internet blacklist law

By Malavika Jagannathan | July 10th, 2012 | No Comments

The Russian-language version of Wikipedia will be dark for 24 hours to protest a proposed law that would allow a government agency to blacklist websites containing pornography, drug advertisements or extremist ideas. The Duma, Russia’s parliament, is slated to review the controversial amendments to the country’s “Law on Information” for the second of three readings […]

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Syrian Networks and Government Websites Back Up After 24 Hour Outage

By Kendra Albert | June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

On Friday morning, the government-sponsored news agency Syria News reported Internet outages in Damascus, Aleppo, and other provinces. Shortly thereafter, the outage was covered by sources from The Washington Post to Al-Jazeera’s liveblog, and in the OpenNet Initiative blogpost from that day. Renesys, the Internet security firm that initially documented the blackout, reported on Saturday […]

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