Draft

Net censorship

October 8, 2014 — October 8, 2014

Notes on interesting cases of hiding bits of the net.

1 Turkey’s herculean efforts

Turkish censorship strategies Turkey’s Erdogan: One of the World’s Most Determined Internet Censors

2 Tracking censorship

Lumen Database:

Lumen is an independent research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. We collect and analyze 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.