Initiative For an Open Arab Internet
Implacable Adversaries: Arab Governments and the Internet
February 16th 2007 
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Nart Villeneuve
Internet Censorship Explorer
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Censorship Visualizations
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, [...]
MSN’s live.com
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 [...]
December 8th 2006 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
RSF Cuba Report
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 [...]
October 20th 2006 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
HK Filtering? Or Just an Error?
There have been a wide variety of reports suggesting that ntscmp.com is being filtered in Hong Kong. Global Voices has a great round-up of the discussion. It is clear from the discussion that users are reporting various results, some are able to access the site others are not.
ntscmp.com is hosted on a web hosting company [...]
September 22nd 2006 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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