02 Sep 2002

Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Supplied note: "[We] are studying Internet filtering in countries worldwide, including restrictions on Web access in China. As in our prior testing of Saudi Arabia [...], there has been no publicly available master list of blocked sites. [...] To help us broaden the number and types of pages tested and to provide the general public a means of finding out whether particular pages of interest are filtered, we have created a web page at which users can see whether a given site is likely accessible from China [...]. We'll track all requests and retest them over time, reporting the results in our forthcoming report about Internet filtering in China. - be."
Site contents: Testing Tools; Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide; Listing of user-submitted sites found inaccessible to date [the list includes NGOs (e.g. www.falungong.org, www.tibet.org, www.amnesty.org), foreign Government/Media sites (e.g. www.homeoffice.gov.uk, news.bbc.co.uk, www.abc.gov.au, goasiapacific.com) Universities (e.g. www.columbia.edu, www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de) and popular Search Engines (e.g. www.google.com, www.altavista.com) - ed.]; Frequently Asked Questions; Other resources about Internet filtering in China.
[The Berkman Center (cyber.law.harvard.edu) is leading the organization of the 4th Harvard Conference on Internet & Society (Nov 15-16, 2002), which this year is an *internal* Harvard conference focusing on the University's emerging digital identity. - ed.]
URL http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: Benjamin Edelman (edelman@law.harvard.edu), forwarded by (h-asia@h-net.msu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30