Posts with keyword: censorship

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The Ukrainian War, PKI, and Censorship

Tue Mar 29 09:36:00 2022

PKI has created a global trust framework for the web. But the war in Ukraine has shone a light on its weaknesses. Hierarchies are not good architectures for building robust, trustworthy, and stable digital systems.
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The Impact of a Network of Networks on Censorship

Wed May 6 11:44:00 2020

Creating a network of networks, where multiple ledgers serve as anchors for credential definitions, has consequences for the overall system's ability to resist censorship. This post explores why.
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China, the Internet's Broken Link

Fri May 26 02:52:00 2006

Danny Weitzner, W3C, at WWW2006(click to enlarge) Danny Weitzner from the W3C started out today's plenary session with a discussion of the Internet and Society called "China: A Broken Link on the Web. Is it the case that if everyone's a publisher, then too is every government a filter and interceptor? He starts off noting the story of Yahoo! "helping jail a Chinese writer" and made some interesting points: Yahoo! has no basis for ignoring Chinese law while obeying the laws of other countries. That leaves the choice of simply not doing business in China. There's an argument that being
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