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Before the Ban: A decentralized index of social media users and where to find their content

Before the Ban makes a user’s social media network portable, providing a way for followers to always find a user’s latest accounts and content, even after a suspension, termination, or “shadow ban”. It is designed to be censorship resistant and platform agnostic. [more inside]
posted by asher on Nov 8, 2018 - 0 comments

Blocked on Weibo

Chinese words like foot fetish, Islam, and march are or were blocked on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. For two months last year, I used a Ruby script to uncover about a thousand of these blocked words. I've posted some of them on a website I created with short little entries on why they are blocked. [more inside]
posted by jng on Mar 10, 2012 - 4 comments

What Is TOR? or "The face of the surveillance state is totally an octopus in a top hat"

WHAT IS TOR: A poster for the Electronic Frontier Foundation by Molly Crabapple and myself explains what the TOR network of anonymous nodes does, why it's important, and what you can do to help, via the medium of cartoon raccoons in waistcoats.
posted by The Whelk on Jun 8, 2011 - 6 comments

How I Was Banned in Croatia

In the immediate aftermath of the bloody Balkan wars of the 90s, a penniless science-fiction author was hired to write the official biography of Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman. [more inside]
posted by joetrip on Jul 29, 2010 - 1 comment

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