Access Denied

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Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski & Zittrain • Sep 16, 2008 • (0) Comments •
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My first encounter with the word "hacktivist" - a portmanteau word. hacker + activist = hacktivist

The full title of the book is: Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

In Access Denied an unlikely avant-garde of scholars, lawyers, hacktivists, and computer programmers come together to combat efforts by repressive regimes, corporate firms, and intelligence agencies to surveil, filter, and block the Internet. Through critical analysis, regional surveys, and the use of innovative software, the authors reveal the penumbra of a networked global civil society emerging from the Dark Side's efforts to eclipse the Internet. Everyone who supports open thought and the free flow of information should read Access Denied.

Many of us in Iran are familiar with the words below:



We encounter it while surfing the web, or following links that our friends outside the country send to us. It means the page we are looking for is blocked. "Access Denied".

Update: Since April 2009, I've noticed a change in the above blocking image. We now have the option to report the block, if we think it shouldn't be there. They provide the handy email:



Am I going to take advantage of this wonderful feature and report sites I don't think should be blocked? Nope. Not yet. I don't want to attract attention to myself and get my name and email in the system by reporting or contacting, or having anything to do with these blockers (block-heads?). Trying to stay below radar until I get more organized : )

But one day. We've really got to get over this blockage. As a planning issue, it stifles innovation, communication, economic growth etc. Sure, people with free access to info might spend most their time perusing porn or trying to destabilize the government. That's the cost of a creative, active society. It's well worth it. Too bad the blockers don't share this opinion and haven't done a thorough cost-benefit analysis. Thus this blocking policy remains. Petty, small, miserly, anti-competitive and faux-parental.

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