Jonathan Zittrain, who co-authored the study of Saudi web filtering we cited a few days ago, has written a good piece for News.com on how national filtering regimes are undermining the end-to-end architecture of the internet. He and his filtering study co-author, Benjamin Edelman, are writing a distributed app that will run on your computer's untapped cycles to test the unfiltered global reach of your machine across the net, and use the resulting data from all participants to create a dynamic map of the access barriers imposed by censors.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/23/2002 11:07:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
