Internet Censorship: Then and Now

Nick Feamster
Network Insights
Published in
7 min readAug 17, 2010

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I began working on Internet censorship nearly ten years ago, when Professors Hari Balakrishnan and David Karger talked about users who were behind the “Great Firewall of China” and their need to get more ready access to information. In this post, I’ll talk about the state of censorship and censorship back then, how the landscape has changed, the lessons I have learned along the way, and my initial thoughts on future research in…

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Nick Feamster
Network Insights

Neubauer Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago. The Internet, research, running, & life. https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~feamster/