South Korea Inadvertently Blocks Thousands of Sites

A new study by the OpenNet Initiative (a research partnership of the Citizen Lab [University of Toronto], the Berkman Center, and the Advanced Network Research Group [University of Cambridge]) finds that not only are the expected, politically controversial pro-North Korea sites blocked by major South Korean ISPs, but a large number of completely unrelated sites.  The ban on a primary group of 31 pro-North Korea websites by the South Korean government appears to be mostly obeyed, but an additional group of 3,167 unrelated domains are being filtered as well.  Read the full study here.