Tag: Access Denied
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✴︎ blogAccess Denied Review
Published in the Guardian Seth Finkelstein has written a thoughtful review of the OpenNet Initiative’s new book Access Denied in the Guardian. Seth says ” It’s a primer in methods and an atlas of studies. The first sections provide an analytical framework. Then prohibitions are examined across dozens of countries. The results show that far…
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✴︎ blogReview of Access Denied + BBC on psiphon
Reviewed in BBC.co.uk Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering challenges the long-standing assumption that the internet is an unfettered space where citizens from around the world can freely communicate and mobilise. In fact, the book makes it clear that the scope, scale and sophistication of net censorship are growing. “There’s been…
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✴︎ blogBBC The World Today and CBC The World at Six
There were two radio reports about various aspects of the Citizen Lab’s research and development activities yesterday. Clark Boyd did a report about the OpenNet Initiative’s new book, Access Denied on BBC’s The World Today. I have uploaded a version of that broadcast locally here Additionally, Eli Glasner did a report on the use of…
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✴︎ blogCBC Search Engine, Nature, and Digital Nation
Some recent items on psiphon, the ONI’s new volume, Access Denied, and others to report: I did an interview with Jesse Brown of CBC’s search engine on psiphon. The full interview, including Mike Hull’s psiphon theme song, is available here (Note: The interview with me starts at 16 minutes, 15 seconds into the podcast). Bruce…
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✴︎ blogAccess Denied review: IEEE Spectrum
“In the dot-com heyday of the ’90s and early 2000s…there was a myth that the Internet can’t be controlled,” says Ronald Deibert, a researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. “There was some mysterious, magical property associated with it that will route around censorship.” The most exhaustive study yet of Internet censorship—Access Denied: The…