access denied - the practice & policy of global internet filtering

[...]... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2005/11/14/on-being-filtered-in-tunisia-or-what-wsis-shouldreally-focus-on/ 2 Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 53–54 1 Measuring Global Internet Filtering Robert Faris and Nart Villeneuve The Scope and Depth of Global Internet Filtering In this chapter, we set out to provide an overview of the data regarding Internet filtering that the OpenNet Initiative1 has gathered over the past year... political threat to the ruling regimes A Survey of Global Filtering Strategies, Transparency, and Consistency There are many techniques used to block access to Internet content Each of these techniques can be used at different levels of Internet access within a country Internet filtering is most commonly implemented at two levels: at the ISPs within the country and on the Internet backbone at the international... As the list of the contributors makes plain, the OpenNet Initiative is an expensive project to operate There would be no global data set and no book were it not for the vision of our program of cers and the willingness to take risks of the boards of their foundations We owe deep thanks to all at the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation for a multiyear, $3 million grant that has provided the. .. Researchers then test these lists to see which Web sites are available from different locations within each country.3 The states that filter the Internet must choose which topics to block (the scope of filtering) and how much of each topic to filter (the depth of filtering) The results of these decisions are summarized in figure 1.1, comparing the breadth and depth of filtering for the countries where evidence of. .. of global Internet filtering In addition to the state-specific data, we present a series of chapters that builds arguments grounded in our empirical findings about Internet filtering The first short chapter, by Robert Faris and Nart Villeneuve, includes a set of issues that emerge from the data: trends and themes from a global perspective Our chapter 2 gives an overview of the politics and practice of Internet. .. unblocked until the new IP address is discovered and blocked Summary Measures of Internet Filtering To summarize the results of our work, we have assigned a score to each of the countries we studied This score is designed to reflect the degree of filtering in each of the four major thematic areas: 1) the filtering of political content, 2) social content, 3) conflict- and securityrelated content, and 4) Internet. .. filtering was found The number of different categories in which Internet filtering was found to occur is shown on the horizontal axis We put this forward as a measure of the scope of Internet filtering in each country (The categories are shown in table 1.2.) The vertical axis depicts the comprehensiveness of filtering efforts as measured by the highest degree of content blocked in any of the topical categories... on filtering If the breadth of filtering represents the ambition of censors to limit information related to a range of topics, the depth of filtering measures the success in actually blocking content This might correspond to the level of sophistication of the filtering regime 6 Robert Faris and Nart Villeneuve and amount of resources devoted to the endeavor, or it may be a reflection of the resolve and... proven the absence of filtering in these countries However, our background research supports the conclusion drawn from the technical testing that none of these states are currently filtering Internet content.4 Later in the book we turn our attention to the question of why some countries filter and others do not, even under similar political and cultural circumstances Measuring Global Internet Filtering 9 The. .. Claiming control of the Internet has become an essential element in any government strategy to rein in dissent the twenty-first century parallel to taking over television and radio stations In contrast to these exceptional events, the constant blocking of a swath of the Internet has become part of the everyday political and cultural reality of many states A growing number of countries are blocking access to . Sey, 2007 Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain, 2008 Access Denied The Practice and Policy. Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Access denied : the practice and policy of global Internet filtering / edited by. al.]. p. cm. — (The information revolution & global politics series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 97 8-0 -2 6 2-5 419 6-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 97 8-0 -2 6 2-0 424 5-1 (hardcover