IDEA 20090121 Internet Filtering

The idea is to look at examples of Internet Filtering and analyze them in terms that are not as polarized as free-speech and censorship. However, the hypothesis is that less filtering and blockage improves communication.

There are multiple ways to address the problem and multiple outputs. The easiest is in terms of information/IT/information-theory and overall packet/keyword loss. Another way, possibly more abstract is to look at more filtering, or more irregular filtering as a practice which hurts business.

Note, this should focus on at least 2-3 countries.

This will have helpful impact on the nocleanfeed.com movement in Australia hopefully.

Example
If one company is to ship a 100 boxes and only 70 arrive at destination, this is total FAIL.

Methods

 * #bizarro #gfw
 * If could get listing of #proxy #whitelisted sites people use in #china, could get good view of what #gfw is filtering

Outputs

 * Research Paper, hopefully at the free culture research conference
 * Web Portal (possibly with google app engine)
 * keywords entry