Archive for the 'Uncategorized' Category

• 8.30.07 China’s Web Police posted in Uncategorized

  It appears that “Jingjing” and “Chacha” are being brought to Beijing. Two “virtual cops” will be appearing on users screen when they visit major news portal such a sohu and sina and warn them about illegal content. User’s can click the images and be redirected to the police website “where they can report illegal activities [...]

• 2.16.07 Initiative For an Open Arab Internet posted in Uncategorized

  Implacable Adversaries: Arab Governments and the Internet

• 12.13.06 Censorship Visualizations posted in Uncategorized

  Some censorship visualizations from govcom.org that were part of the Protect the Net event:
  Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Unblocked Content on Blocked Sites in Pakistan - The Baloch Case (November 2006) [method pdf]
  Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Unblocked Content on Blocked Sites in Pakistan - The Baloch Case (November 2006) [story pdf]
  Two Providers, [...]

• 12.8.06 MSN’s live.com posted in Filtering Technology, Search Engines, Uncategorized

  MSN’s search engine at live.com detects the HTTP header, “Accept-Language”, and then sets, via a Cookie, your “market”. Currently, there are three Chinese options zh-cn (China), zh-hk (Hong Kong) and zh-tw (Taiwan). Your “market” will be set depending on which one of these your browser sends to the server. If your browser send [...]

• 10.20.06 RSF Cuba Report posted in Internet Censorship, Uncategorized

  RSF has released a new report on Cuba. The report reflects experiences I have had testing the Cuban Internet, very few sites are blocked. The report notes that expensive, restrictive access and slow speed (lack of fibre optic cables due to the US embargo) are the main issues.
  This, however, is the first time I’ve heard [...]