{"id":1149,"date":"2013-11-18T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:48:18","slug":"imweekly-november-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/2013\/11\/18\/imweekly-november-18-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"#IMWeekly: November 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran<\/strong><br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/cgcsblog.asc.upenn.edu\/2013\/11\/07\/citation-filtered\/\">study<\/a> by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication surveyed over 800,000 Persian-language Wikipedia articles in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/charliewarzel\/how-iran-uses-wikipedia-to-censor-the-internet\">better understand<\/a> how the Iranian government censors the Internet. Censored articles (963 in total were found to be blocked) covered a <a href=\"http:\/\/cgcsblog.asc.upenn.edu\/2013\/11\/07\/citation-filtered\/\">wide range of content<\/a>&mdash;from human rights issues to sexual topics&mdash;with a particular attention given to information about individuals and\/or groups that have expressed opposition to the state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United States<\/strong><br \/>\nCritics of the FISA Improvements Act, a new Senate bill described by supporters as surveillance reform, argued that the bill would not only \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/nov\/15\/feinstein-bill-nsa-warrantless-searches-surveillance\">make permanent a loophole<\/a> permitting the NSA to search for Americans\u2019 identifying information without a warrant\u201d but also that it \u201ccontains an ambiguity that might allow the FBI, the DEA and other law enforcement agencies to do the same thing.\u201d While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/under-the-radar\/2013\/11\/senate-intelligence-panel-sharply-split-on-surveillance-177654.html\">fifteen member Senate Intelligence Committee voted 11-4<\/a> to approve the legislation on October 31, a recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/CRPT-113srpt119\/pdf\/CRPT-113srpt119.pdf\">committee report<\/a> reveals that the members of the committee were sharply split on a number of proposed amendments that would have imposed stricter reforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vietnam<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2013\/11\/cpj-petition-calls-for-release-of-blogger-dieu-cay.php\">created a petition<\/a> calling on the Vietnamese government to release imprisoned blogger Nguyen Van Hai. Hai was convicted under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpj.org\/awards\/2013\/nguyen-van-hai-vietnam.php\">vague law that bars \u201cconducting propaganda\u201d<\/a> for writing blog posts on sensitive political topics. He is currently serving a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nguyen_Van_Hai\">twelve-year sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>#imweekly is a regular round-up of news about Internet content controls and activity around the world. To subscribe via RSS,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/category\/im-weekly\/feed\/\"><em>click here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s #IMWeekly: Iranian censorship of Wikipedia, US surveillance reform, and more! <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/2013\/11\/18\/imweekly-november-18-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[83977,3687,83924,622,1860,3616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrests-and-imprisonment","category-censorship","category-im-weekly","category-iran","category-united-states","category-vietnam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4L9BV-ix","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}