On the first part of this serie of articles with regard to censorship on the internet, we addressed how limitation can be done on your computer and at the corporate or ISP level. Let’s see on this second part how this censorship can be done at the country-level side. We all have heard countries who [...]
Last March, the buzz around the internet was that China is blocking access to some external sites, but since some clever users have figured out to using a VPN to overcome the issue, the Chinese government also begun to block some VPN implementations (PPTP and L2TP based VPN). Let’s take a simple look at how [...]
Chinese authorities have recently been widely criticized for their well known censorship of various popular websites from the Chinese cyber space. This was all done in what was cited to be an attempt to ‘purify’ the online surfing experience of the average Chinese citizen. The Chinese citizens in question, however, beg to differ, and several [...]
Thinking that it would be interesting to see what type of censorship is applied in each region of the world, the journalists from the Guardian have posted an online map documenting the presence of internet censorship around the globe. Even it’s 6 months old it’s still interesting shows how we stand in terms of censorship. Let’s take [...]
New internal documents leaked from Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, reveal how information is monitored and manipulated
Herdict is a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University that applies the Digg style crowd-sourcing model to Internet Censorship to help you get a much clearer view of net filtering around the world in almost real time. Herdict Web seeks to gain insight into what users around the world [...]
