Archive for the 'Filtering Technology' 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 [...]

• 2.27.08 Australia: Filtering in Test Phase posted in Filtering Technology, International

  The Australian government is moving ahead with plans to introduce filtering at the ISP level. They’ll block content that is deemed to be harmful to children.
  ISP-based filters will block inappropriate web pages at service provider level and automatically relay a clean feed to households.
  To be exempted, users will have to individually contact their ISPs.

  The [...]

• 10.20.07 The GFW of Comcast? posted in Filtering Technology, Free Expression

  There have been a number of recent reports stating that Comcast is interfering with file-sharing traffic including BitTorent, Gnutella, and Lotus Notes. The reports state that the technique used is the TCP RST packet technique that the GFW of China has made (in)famous. (An intermediary send RST packets to both ends of a connection, [...]

• 10.11.07 US-made ‘censorware’ ends up in iron fists posted in Filtering Technology, International, Internet Censorship, News Monitor

  CS Monitor reports:
  The software companies involved sell this technology primarily to private companies in the US and abroad. Companies use these tools to keep employees from accessing pornography sites and websites infected with viruses.
  Repressive governments also turn to these American systems, not only to filter out porn and viruses, but also to block political, religious, [...]