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Paper: The infrastructure of censorship in Asia
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Title Paper: The infrastructure of censorship in Asia
Abstract
Nation states around the world engage in blocking access to websites and online services. The presentation will cover the legal architecture and technical mechanisms of …
Nation states around the world engage in blocking access to websites and online services. The presentation will cover the legal architecture and technical mechanisms of state-directed censorship in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, including the role of public infrastructure and private internet service providers (ISPs).

Papers and essays covered in this contribution:

* 'The infrastructure of censorship in Asia' by Gurshabad Grover in 'Eaten by the Internet' (ed. Corinne Cath) published by https://archive.org/details/eaten-by-the-internet

* Also see 'The Decentralized Infrastructure of Online Censorship in Asia' by Gurshabad Grover on the Open Tech Fund blog: https://www.opentech.fund/news/the-decentralized-infrastructure-of-online-censorship-in-asia/

* 'CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in India' by Divyank Katira, Gurshabad Grover, et al. published in the Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '23) Proceedings: https://www.petsymposium.org/foci/2023/foci-2023-0006.pdf

* 'How India Censors the Web' by Kushagra Singh, Gurshabad Grover, et al. published in the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science: https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/how-india-censors-the-web-websci
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slides-biasws-the-infrastructure-of-censorship-in-asia-00
Nation states around the world engage in blocking access to websites and online
services. The presentation will cover the legal architecture and technical
mechanisms of state-directed censorship in India, Pakistan and Indonesia,
including the role of public infrastructure and private internet service
providers (ISPs).

Papers and essays covered in this contribution:

* 'The infrastructure of censorship in Asia' by Gurshabad Grover in 'Eaten by
the Internet' (ed. Corinne Cath) published by
https://archive.org/details/eaten-by-the-internet

* Also see 'The Decentralized Infrastructure of Online Censorship in Asia' by
Gurshabad Grover on the Open Tech Fund blog:
https://www.opentech.fund/news/the-decentralized-infrastructure-of-online-censorship-in-asia/

* 'CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in India' by Divyank
Katira, Gurshabad Grover, et al. published in the Free and Open Communications
on the Internet (FOCI '23) Proceedings:
https://www.petsymposium.org/foci/2023/foci-2023-0006.pdf

* 'How India Censors the Web' by Kushagra Singh, Gurshabad Grover, et al.
published in the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science:
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/how-india-censors-the-web-websci