Filters Continue to Censure and Remains a Problem for Many (Middle East Gets Upset) West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011. March 2011 Authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian C.
York. To view this bulletin as a PDF, click here. Executive Summary The OpenNet Initiative has documented network filtering of the Internet by national governments in over forty countries worldwide. Countries use this network filtering as one of many methods to control the flow of online content that is objectionable to the filtering governments for social, political, and security reasons. Helmi Noman and Jillian C. Noman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and is a Berkman Center Research Affiliate. The authors would like to thank James Tay of Citizen Lab for technical support and test data analysis. Foreword Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain Today that portability is amply shown but rarely discussed. This report details just how popular Western filtering tools and services are among authoritarian regimes. Key Findings Introduction Mass Filtering.
U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web. Check Single URL. Why are URL shorteners blocked by some content filters? URL shortening. Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address.
Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse and for this reason, some URL shortening service providers have found themselves on spam blacklists, because of the use of their redirect services by sites trying to bypass those very same blacklists. Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted.[2] Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry. URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability. Registering a short URL[edit] Abuse[edit] Why are URL shorteners blocked by some content filters, websites, and wifi providers? <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!
If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Today I was interested to learn Flickr prohibits the use of some URL shortened links, including tinyurl and bit.ly. This was surprising as well as annoying, since some complicated web links do not display properly in Flickr’s description area when they are inserted with basic HTML link code. That makes a URL shortening service quite handy.
I learned over a year ago that the content filters employed by many school districts block URL shorteners. Is Bit.ly a Malicious Website???, According to some Australian filters it is… Bit.Ly is Censored & considered as Malicious On the 1 September 2010, I once again found that could be accessed, and the “Malicious website” warning was no longer blocking the site.
I suspect that this in turn allowed all the other sites blocked by this filter—such as to once again be viewed ( I had personally put in a complaint about the blocking of to so that might have helped). The fact is: you might never have known about this block to your websites—it took me to notice it and attempt to bring it to your attention. In turn, many of you will never know how how badly your name has been tarnished—because this affected everyone who used bit.ly—and how many people have turned away from your website, blocked you or stopped following your twitter, blog, face book or whatever. On the internet (apart from this document) all is well, all is healed, it almost appears like it never happened. Bit.ly Starts Warning About Malicious Links. A simple URL shortener.