Net censorship
2014-10-07 — 2026-02-14
Wherein sundry stratagems of online concealment are observed in Turkey and beyond, and the Lumen register of takedown notices is consulted, with shadow-bans noted as a wider form.
Notes on interesting cases of hiding bits of the internet from the public.
1 Turkey’s herculean efforts
I noticed this the last time I was there. Turkish censorship strategies Turkey’s Erdogan: One of the World’s Most Determined Internet Censors.
2 Tracking censorship
Lumen is an independent research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. We collect and analyse requests to remove material from the web. Our goals are to educate the public, to facilitate research about the different kinds of complaints and requests for removal—both legitimate and questionable—that are being sent to Internet publishers and service providers, and to provide as much transparency as possible about the “ecology” of such notices, in terms of who is sending them and why, and to what effect.
3 Great Firewall of China
See China for more on this.
4 More expansive definitions of censorship
Does shadow-banning go here? Cancelling?