As we now know, Internet filtering is no longer limited to the usual suspects (China, Iran, Burma); Herdict has allowed us to get wind of new filtering across the world, in places the OpenNet Initiative has never even tested. That is why this week we’re bringing you the top 5 countries reporting inaccessibility! 1. Iran […]
Since the launch of Herdict Arabic last week, the Herdict team has been excited to see Saudi Arabia trot to the front of the herd (with 1,854 reports in the past seven days, 914 of which are inaccessible). Although the inaccessibility reports indicate trends in filtering (see ONI’s report on Saudi Arabia here), such reports […]
It seems Herdict has been getting a lot of attention lately…so much so that perhaps Shep (our beloved mascot) is starting to get a big head. First it was BoingBoing; now Herdict is getting mentioned all over the world! Here’s a sampling of where we’ve been spotted these past couple of weeks: –Shanghaiist, a popular […]