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Paper: The infrastructure of censorship in Asia
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2024-01-16
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00 Mirja Kühlewind Changed title to Paper: The infrastructure of censorship in Asia from The infrastructure of censorship in Asia
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Changed abstract to Nation states around the world engage in blocking access to websites and online services. The presentation will cover the legal architecture and …
Changed abstract to 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
2024-01-16
00 Mirja Kühlewind Changed title to The infrastructure of censorship in Asia
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00 Mirja Kühlewind New version available: slides-biasws-the-infrastructure-of-censorship-in-asia-00