Where do people try to open banned sites?
February 8th, 2011 by David Bradley >> 2 Comments
My post on how to open banned sites is a perennial favorite among visitors to Sciencetext from the searching engines, they arrive with any and (almost) all combinations of the following keywords: open, site, access, banned, web, restricted, proxy, accessing and facebook. Obvious really, if someone blocks or restricts your access to the parts of the web that you want to visit from school work, despotic regime, then you will try any and all ways to get around the ban.
Here’s a map, courtesy of AddThis, which I mentioned recently, showing the international hotspots, the places where Sciencetext visitors are sharing the banned sites post the most, although how they’re sharing it if the likes of Facebook and Twitter are banned I’m not sure, so maybe this isn’t a true reflection of the blockages.
Nevertheless, India, Turkey, Egypt are top of the list, closely followed by the USA, then Bangladesh, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
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- Egypt Bans Twitter To Fight Protests [Foreign Affairs] (gawker.com)
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jesvin // Feb 9, 2011 at 1:04 pm
“visitors are >>sharing<< the banned sites post the most"
Do you mean they share this stuff on facebook?
I am from India and while there is no despotic regime here, our schools and colleges ban stuff. Even my college, which is highly regarded and graduates 400+ engineers a year has filters in the labs and hostel wifi. institutes who dont, look upto us.
In (atleast my corner of) India, Those who are 35+ in age consider the internet as "educational resource" and grant it to their kids/students as such and fun activities are considered misuse. Its a case of people who try to control information flow which they are not comfortable with and young people who dont believe in that crap.
David Bradley // Feb 9, 2011 at 4:14 pm
@Jesvin Hah! Yes, I realise it’s schools and colleges that are often blocking stuff…