interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

Fri Jan 16 02:21:05 UTC 2004

On 2004-01-16, Vadim Antonov <avg at kotovnik.com> wrote:
> Installing a whitelisting and challenge-response mail filer on my box 

[my rant about c/r elided as offtopic and beaten to death here]

> The solution to "high offensiveness" is to grow up and stop behaving like
> the sight of some physiological function is going to kill us. It is 

You might find a series of excellent papers by Prof Jon Zittrain and Ben
Edelman of the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School quite interesting.

For example, this one, delivered at APRICOT 2003 in Taipei titled "Internet
Filtering: Technologies & Best Practices"
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/pubs/APRICOT-filtering

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ps: Extract from that presentation: nice list, I must say ...

> Filtering Today: Who?
> China
> Saudi Arabia
> United Arab Emirates
> Vietnam
> Pennsylvania, USA
> Singapore
> Talking about it: Australia, Germany, Spain