Ben Edelman – CFP 2003
The effect of technical happenstance on filtering transparency
•Proxy servers “have to” provide error pages
•Router-based filtering “cannot” provide error pages
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•Saudi Arabia: single international gateway to Internet, relatively less Internet traffic → proxy-based filtering → error pages, transparency
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•China: multiple international gateways, high
traffic → router-based filtering → no error pages, less transparency, official denials that Internet filtering exists, no “request a change” form
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