ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Websites > Internet Censorship and Spam

Global Internet Liberty Campaign
Source: GILC
Country: United States
E-mail: info@gilc.org

Complete coverage and analysis of the ongoing battle for free speech and strong encryption on the Internet.

Nurse your Net nanny!
Source: Glen Roberts
Country: United States

Techniques for bypassing popular Net filtering software.

Free speech now!
Source: Glen Roberts
Country: United States

Glen Roberts offers an easy e-mail-based method for bypassing access restrictions to Web sites.

Digital Freedom Network
Source: Digital Freedom Network
Country: United States

"The Digital Freedom Network (DFN) uses the Internet to seek justice and compassion for people enduring human rights violations." In particular, DFN covers censorship and publishes banned pieces.

Chilling effects clearinghouse
Source: Chilling Effects
Country: United States

Excellent web site highlighting First Amendment challenges to online individuals' rights in areas including fan fiction, copyright/DMCA, protest/parody sites, linking, and more. They're also compiling a searchable database of "cease and desist" letters to show how chilling these campaigns are to online free speech. An EFF project.

Peacefire
Source: Peacefire
Country: United States
E-mail: info@peacefire.org

While blocking software is not necessarily censorship (depending on who's using it), this is still a useful site, which advises young people on how to disable blocking software ("It's not a crime to be smarter than your parents"), and provides many excellent examples of how blocking software actually blocks many non-pornographic, non-violent Web resources.

Debunking the Rimm study
Source: Wired News
Country: United States

In 1995, Time magazine publicized the "Rimm study" which is still quoted as support for cyberporn censorship. Marty Rimm claimed 83.5% of all images passed around on the Usenet newsgroups were pornographic. The Georgetown Law Journal believed him. This site debunks the study.

Sex, censorship, and the internet
Source: EFF
Author: Carl M. Kadie
Country: United States

This online lecture contains so many embedded links to supporting research and data that it constitutes a directory to academic policies on internet censorship.

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