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, [...]
March 16th 2008 
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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 [...]
March 5th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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 [...]
February 23rd 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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 [...]
February 19th 2008 READ MORE 2 COMMENTS
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