Internet censorship

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The Pirate Bay, commonly abbreviated as TPB, is a free searchable online index of movies, music, video games, pornography and software. Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay facilitates the connection among users of the peer-to-peer torrent protocol, which are able to contribute to the site through the addition of magnet links. The Pirate Bay has consistently ranked as one of the most visited torrent websites in the world.

alt=Kiwix, running on an Android tablet|thumb|272x272px|Kiwix app, running on an Android tablet Kiwix is a free and open-source offline web browser created by Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin in 2007. It was first launched to enable offline access to Wikipedia, but has since expanded to include other projects from the Wikimedia Foundation, public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, many of the Stack Exchange sites, and many other resources. Available in more than 100 languages, Kiwix has been included in several high-profile projects, from smuggling operations in North Korea to Googl

control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet

Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGen), among other sources. It calls itself "the largest truly open library in human history", and has said it aims to "catalog all the books in existence" and "track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form". It claims not to be liable for downloads of copyrighted works since it does not directly host any files, instead linking to third-party downloads. It has nonetheless been targeted for engaging in large-scale copyright infringement, facing government blocks and legal action from rightsholders and publishing trade associations.

legal concept

intellectual isolation involving algorithms

Series of protests from 2011 to 2012

Internet slang term denoting content suitability

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pornography that is accessible over the Internet

North Korean "walled garden" national intranet

restriction on accessing an online resource

Psiphon is a free and open-source Internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, such as a VPN, SSH, and a Web proxy. Psiphon is a centrally managed and geographically diverse network of thousands of proxy servers, using a performance-oriented, single- and multi-hop routing architecture.

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problem caused by profanity filters on the Internet

blocking or partially blocking a user or content from an online community without their awareness

UltraSurf is a closed-source freeware Internet censorship circumvention product created by UltraReach Internet Corporation. The software bypasses Internet censorship and firewalls using an HTTP proxy server, and employs encryption protocols for privacy.

protest movement against Church of Scientology censorship on the Internet

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thumb | right | alt=Netflix does not currently offer its streaming service in China due to a challenging regulatory environment. | Netflix does not currently offer its streaming service in China due to a challenging regulatory environment. Geo-blocking, geoblocking or geolocking is technology that restricts access to Internet content based upon the user's geographical location. In a geo-blocking scheme, the user's location is determined using Internet geolocation techniques, such as checking the user's IP address against a blacklist or whitelist, GPS queries in the case of a mobile device, acc

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Nostr (acronym for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for decentralized message transmission, with the intention to be able to resist internet censorship while maintaining session integrity. "Noster" can also be translated as "our" or "ours" from Latin. The protocol achieves decentralization through users publishing content associated with a cryptographic public key to various "relays", which are WebSocket servers that store and distribute an activity stream of received data from users. This allows the network to verify users and achieve account portability on Nos

thumb|HTTP 403|HTTP 403 Forbidden server response to a geo-blocked website https://sss.gov ([[Selective Service System) accessed from a Russian internet provider.]] The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization or internet balkanization) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests. "Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it", wrote the Economist weekly in 2010, arguing it could soon splinter along geographic and commercial boundaries. Th

NetBlocks is a watchdog organization that monitors cybersecurity and the governance of the Internet. The service was launched in 2017 to monitor Internet freedom.

effort to create boundaries on a network

large-scale intranet maintained by a nation-state as a substitute for the Internet

thumb|A bust of MIT president Francis Amasa Walker separated from its pedestal at the [[MIT Museum]] Deplatforming, also known as no-platforming, is a boycott on an individual or group by removing the platforms used to share their information or ideas. The term is commonly associated with social media.

a generic term for police and government agencies, departments and other organizations in charge of policing Internet in a number of countries

Computer programmer and co-founder of Autodesk (1949-2024)

annual online event

measure used to restrict access to digital content by age

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a project that monitors internet censorship globally. It relies on volunteers to run software that detects blocking and reports the findings to the organization. As of June 2023, OONI has analyzed 1,468.4 million network connections in 241 countries.

technique used to block encrypted protocol tunneling communications methods used by virtual private network (VPN) systems

Underground content market

censorship circumvention technique

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a restriction on accessing an online resource, enforced through use of Domain Name Server request blocking or filtering

online archive of anarchism-related written works

NGO aiming to prevent censorship and protect privacy rights on the Internet

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Canadian computer programmer and security researcher

In social media, algospeak is a self-censorship phenomenon in which users adopt coded expressions to evade real or imagined automated content moderation. It allows users to discuss topics deemed sensitive to moderation algorithms while avoiding penalties such as shadow banning, downranking, or de-monetization of content. A type of netspeak, algospeak primarily serves to bypass censorship, though it can also reinforce group belonging, especially in marginalized communities. Algospeak has been identified as one source of linguistic change in the modern era, with some terms spreading into everyda