Study shows increase in government censorship of Internet Vietnam filtering, monitoring Internet more, says study The Open Net Initiative (ONI), in a recently released study on Vietnam, is reporting an increase in Internet censorship in the country. The research finds that Vietnamese officials are particularly bent on filtering content that questions the country's one-party system.

Internet censorship in Uzbekistan is worsening It is common knowledge that the Internet in Uzbekistan is censored. The authorities have been filtering out the web resources whose loyalty is suspicious for five years already. The censorship was total - and particularly so after the so called events in Andijan - but the authorities have never admitted its existence. Former Foreign Minister Eljer Ganiyev denied existence of Internet censorship with gusto just a year ago. "We live in the era of computer technologies, and all statements that the Internet is somehow censored or anything are a height of naivete," Ganiyev told foreign journalists once.

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the decision of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on 26 July to add 34 new web addresses to the list of sites to which it blocks access. For the most part they were Baluch nationalist sites, online radio stations and sites relating to the Sindhi minority.

“We deplore these latest filtering measures and we insist, yet again, that it is not the PTA’s job to decide whether websites should be blocked,” the press freedom organisation said. “We believe that such decisions should be taken by a judge, after equitable legal proceedings, and definitely not by an entity under government control.”