The Zittrain-Edelman study of Chinese internet censorship ended last month. Its results have been published on the study's web site and summarized in today's New York Times and Associated Press. Quoting Jonathan Zittrain in the NYTimes: "If the purpose of such filtering is to influence what the average Chinese Internet user sees, success could be within grasp." The Chinese justify their nationwide filtering program as a way to block pornography. But the Chinese filters block access to only 15% of the most popular porn sites (compared to Saudia Arabia's 86%). Instead, the Chinese filters primarily target sites on politics, news, and higher education.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/04/2002 11:13:00 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.
