Filtering the filters

A Harvard Law prof and one of his students is curious just how pervasive Inernet filtering (you know, using software to block sites you deem too horribly offensive for your children/employees/citizens to see) is. So they've set out to create Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide:

With this project we seek to document and analyze a large number of Web pages blocked by various types of filtering regimes, and ultimately create a distributed tool enabling Internet users worldwide to gather and relay such data from their respective locations on the Internet. We can thus start to assemble a picture not of a single hypothetical World Wide Web comprising all pages currently served upon it, but rather a mosaic of webs as viewed from respective locations, each bearing its own limitations on access.

And don't forget to sign up to get notified of the release of the software they're developing to test the extent of the censorship.

Via MetaFilter.

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