Archive for the 'Geolocation' Category

• 3.19.08 Youtube & Tibet posted in Geolocation

  Since all of Youtube is currently blocked in China, I wondered if Youtube might start tagging videos of the protests in Tibet in order to have Youtube unblocked with the specific videos being blocked for users in China. But after running a few (definitely not comprehensive) Tibet related search terms all I found so far [...]

• 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, [...]

• 1.17.08 Excluding Iran posted in Free Expression, Geolocation

  A few months ago The Register published a story which noted that Yahoo! (png) and Microsoft (png) had removed Iran as an option in their country lists used when signing up for an account. (On a separate but interesting note Yahoo! has an option for “Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone”.) Google still has Iran as an [...]

• 9.6.06 NY Times Geolocation Filtering posted in Geolocation, Uncategorized

  The NY Times (mirror) recently restricted access to articles on the recent terrorism case in Britain for users in the UK. Although users could see the headline if the link was clicked the following message was shown:
  “On advice of legal counsel, this article is unavailable to readers of nytimes.com in Britain,” is the message they [...]

• 1.16.06 PBS Geolocation posted in Geolocation, Uncategorized

  Ron Deibert discovered that PBS.org is restricting access to some of their programs by geolocation filtering.
  Generally, geographically-targeted filtering uses geolocation technology to determine an Internet user’s geographic origin by looking up the requesting users’ numerical Internet protocol (IP) address in databases that associate IP addresses with particular countries.
  When users access the programs [...]