Archive for the 'Projects' Category

• 3.16.08 YouTube,Geolocation & China posted in Blockpage.com, Filtering Technology, Geolocation

  After reading this great post on the ONI blog, did a bit of testing myself. As Youtomb discovered There is a tag available through the YouTube API the indicates the country (or countries in some cases) to which YouTube will restrict access to the video. These videos are not (necessarily) blocked by the country itself, [...]

• 3.5.08 ISP Filtering posted in Blockpage.com, Filtering Technology, Protecting Children

  After reading this great enumeration of various efforts to block accidental access to images of child sexual abuse I updated updated blockpage.com to include the blockpages from Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark.
  This document notes many of the unintended consequences of filtering, especially overblocking, and it challenges the wisdom of making the blocking [...]

• 2.23.08 Pakistan & YouTube posted in Blockpage.com, Internet Censorship

  UPDATE — In attempting to block access to YouTube, Pakistan ended up making YouTube inaccessible to everyone — not just everyone in Pakistan, but everyone! Martin A. Brown provides some of the technical details and a time line here (Thanks Steven!):
  Just before 18:48 UTC, Pakistan Telecom, in response to government order (thanks nsp-sec-d) to block [...]

• 2.21.08 Democracy “Magnified” posted in Internet Censorship, Search Engines, Search Monitor

  The “magnify” component of the Search Monitor project attempts to match the top ten results from Google/Yahoo with the top ten results form the China-specific versions of Google/Yahoo in order to note the similarities and differences in terms of censored, returned (the website is in the top ten of the both the .com and .cn [...]

• 2.19.08 Finland Filtering posted in Blockpage.com, Protecting Children

  Finland’s filtering system, put in place to block access to images of child abuse (child pornography) is blocking sites that do not match this criteria. In addition to blocking an anti-censorship activism site, the filtering seems to be significantly overblocking. EFFi reports:
  The censorship supposedly applies only to foreign web sites that are used to [...]