Monthly Archives: March 2015

Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Controversial Censorship Law
On March 24th, India #39;s highest court overturned Section 66A of the 2009 Information Technology Act, which criminalized #39;offensive #39; material posted online.

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Illuminati In Gaming Episode #2: Freedom Under Attack Through Censorship
Today #39;s Episode Includes Topics Such As: Hate speech being used in games and why the media makes it worse, censorship of the game industry and how it will be spread, developers trying to silence.

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Advanced Warfare Episode 17 - Unnecessary Censorship!
Hello guys, in this episode I, AXN have decided to bleep and blur things whether they need them or not. Yes thats right. Yours truly AXN edits these videos!! If anyone actually care I will...

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Our Plan for Conquering Censorship
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Episode 12 : Batgirl Variant Cover and Censorship
Our Host Steve Osbun talks with our upcoming show "Off Panel" Host Spencer Brandt about the content of the Batgirl Variant cover by Rafael Albuquerque, and if censorship in this case is justified...

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ZeN TV | Censorship of Social Media | Ep 5: Part 2
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How Strict Are Chinas Censorship Laws?
Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml China #39;s authoritarian government has proven very adept at censoring the internet and other media. So what do they restrict? Learn More: China #39;s...

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Germanwings Hoax - Crisis Actor Video REJECTED by SCROOGLE = CENSORSHIP
My Analysis of this video pulled from Youtube: Father Of Germanwings Victim Makes Plea For Pilot Care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLa3sgD3BoY.

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Activists battling internet censorship in China are reporting that they have proof of a massive online assault on their websites by the Chinese authorities. The attack, which began last Thursday, targeted two GitHub projects designed to combat censorship in China: GreatFire and CN-NYTimes, a Chinese language version of the New York Times.

Independent researchers, in response to GreatFire's call for help, have reported the following discoveries:

Millions of global internet users, visiting thousands of websites hosted inside and outside China, were randomly receiving malicious code which was used to launch cyberattacks against GreatFire.org's websites.

Baidu's Analytics code (h.js) was one of the files replaced by malicious code which triggered the attacks. Baidu Analytics, akin to Google Analytics, is used by thousands of websites. Any visitor to any website using Baidu Analytics or other Baidu resources would have been exposed to the malicious code..

That malicious code is sent to "any reader globally" without distinguishing that user's geographical location, meaning that the authorities did not just launch this attack using Chinese internet users they compromised internet users and websites everywhere in the world.

The tampering takes places someplace between when the traffic enters China and when it hits Baidu's servers. This is consistent with previous malicious actions and points to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) being directly involved in these attacks.

Sample graph from the report generated from one of the log files based on the 18th of March 2015 attack.

GreatFire has released technical details of the attack in a report titled: "Using Baidu to steer millions of computers to launch denial of service attacks".

Related topics: Censorship, DDoS

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I hope we put ourselves out of business, said Charlie Smith, the pseudonymous head of Great Fire. And he was serious. After all this Chinese Internet monitoring watchdog GreatFire.org is no ordinary case.

Started in 2011 by three anonymous individuals tired of Chinas approach to the internet,itinitiallytracked the effects of the countryscensorship system on websites. Over time, ithas risen to become perhaps the most trusted authority on the subject.

The Great Fire site itself is censorshipdatabase. Visitorsto input a URLto determine if the website isblocked inChina. It is available in English and Chinese, and periodically tests its collectionof over 100,000 URLs to produce a history of the availability/restriction for each one. A hugely useful resource in its own right, GreatFire has come to mean a lot more than just checks. These days, thethree founders document new instances of internet restrictions and foul play in China viathe organizations blog and @greatfirechina Twitter account.

Great Fire is regularlyreferenced byReuters, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and other global media including TechCrunch, of course. Stories it has dug up have included apparent attacks on Apples iCloud service, the blocking of Instagram and messaging apps, restrictionson Google services(of course) and most recentlydetails of a man-in-the-middle attack on Microsoft Outlook users in China.

Thats made the site and its founders a go-to resource for media, activists andanyone with an interest in the internet in China.

In terms ofblogging, weve amazed ourselves, said Smith. Smith highlighted the recent Microsoft attack and the role that Great Fire played publicizing it.

The story began like many others with a post on the Great Fire blog. That was picked up by media which gave the finding aglobal platform and attention.Microsoft entered the scene when itconfirmed that a small number of customers [were] impacted by malicious routing to a server impersonating Outlook.com and suddenly what was initially a small discovery had become a topic in media across the world, China included.

It got me thinking, if wewerent around who wouldve exposed that? Its a serious thing, Smith said.

Great Fire is an invaluable resource for Asia-based tech reporters, but blogging and retroactively documented censorship isnt going to down theGreat Firewall, as Chinas internet censorship organ is known. For that, Smith and his fellow vigilantes have a more sophisticated plan of action that they call Collateral Freedom. Its a concept that leverages cloud-based content networks to give blocked websites and services a new, unblocked lease of life in China.

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