Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The net neutrality fight is on, as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal for new rules moved on to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Now, the two sides are digging in: AT&T, telcos, and unions on one side; Google and content providers on the other.
I tend to favor protecting end-to-end in the Internet context, but I’m [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Privacy, Software, Spam, VoIP, badware
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
My former ONI colleague Rafal Rohozinski, now of Information Warfare Monitor, has a great interview where he discusses methodology and findings for both projects. Well worth a read!
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Filed under: Berkman, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, NSA, Privacy, Security, badware, international, national security
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
One beneficial side effect of Internet filtering is that it points up quirks in how countries make content decisions: what’s blacklisted, and why? The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australia’s proposed Internet censorship system (currently in its second phase of testing) will block access to on-line and downloadable games that aren’t MA-15 or milder. This [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Software, Virtual Worlds, international
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Iranian demonstrators protesting the recent election results (which look dicey) – and their opponents – are using networked technologies to communicate and organize, including Twitter, blogs, SMS, and the like. John Palfrey, Rob Faris, and Bruce Etling point out, though, that these capabilities, while empowering, won’t carry the day. Whether the demonstrations succeed depends on [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Scholarship, Social Networking, Software, Video, Voting, international
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Nope, not a post about the World Cup – these are three countries that have been in the news for government-mandated Internet censorship. It’s a bit weird to see that grouping, but as I’ve argued elsewhere, filtering is becoming ubiquitous – no longer limited to “bad states” like Burma.
In Germany, the major parties in Parliament [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Great panel on filtering at CFP 2009 yesterday – we took up the question of whether John Gilmore is still right in that the “Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” Ian Brown talked about Cleanfeed and how filtering operates, from the most basic to the most sophisticated. TJ McIntyre described the bizarre [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Search Engines, international
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
You can follow along with Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2009 (”Creating the Future”) even if you’re not here in DC (where the weather is surprisingly lovely for June): via Twitter at Tweezup, the CFP blog, and streaming video. The Filtering panel, which also now includes Catherine Crump from the ACLU and Nicole Wong from Google, [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Computer crime, Digital Media, Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, Scholarship, Search Engines, Social Networking, Video, international
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
China has blocked Flickr, Hotmail, Twitter, MSN Spaces, Bing, and YouTube among other services. Hmm, I wonder why that could be? Commentary from Danwei and coverage from Reuters, the Register, and Fox News.
Update 11:45PM 3 June: Danwei has more details, including a link to a spreadsheet that’s purportedly tracking blocked sites.
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Filed under: Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, international
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
On Tuesday, June 2, at the Computers Freedom and Privacy 2009 conference, I’m on a great panel on Internet filtering, and would be delighted to have Info/Law readers come to listen and discuss. CFP is at the Marvin Center at George Washington University; our panel, “Censorship: Can the Internet Still Route Around the Damage?,” is [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Scholarship
Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety has instructed the state’s ISPs to block access by state residents to a list of gambling sites, claiming authority under the Wire Act (18 U.S.C. 1084). The Department’s theory is that 1) gambling is illegal in Minnesota, and 2) the Wire Act requires common carriers to stop furnishing services to [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Filtering, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Minnesota