Open Observatory of Network Interference

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A screen shot of an OONI Explorer search result documenting the blocking of an online news report about censorship on a network in the United Arab Emirates in August 2019.

Q&A: OONI Explorer team unlock the web’s untold censorship stories

The internet is not one network, but thousands of interconnected networks. How can anyone know how they are controlled without inspecting them all? In 2012, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) set out to do just that. A program run by the Seattle-headquartered Tor Project, OONI created OONI Probe, software that anyone can use…

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The Palestinian Authority has blocked at least eight websites from Internet users in the West Bank. Here, Palestinian youths go online at an Internet cafe. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Palestinian Authority blocks critical websites

New York, April 24, 2012–The Palestinian Authority has blocked up to eight critical news websites in the West Bank since February, according to a report released by an independent news agency on Monday.

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