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1/ Russia recently began throttling access to Twitter, their first acknowledged use of throttling for censorship.
My lab investigated, and what we found is an alarming consolidation of Russia's Internet controls.
#russia #throttling
Read our full report:throttletwitter.com
My lab investigated, and what we found is an alarming consolidation of Russia's Internet controls.
#russia #throttling
Read our full report:throttletwitter.com
2/ Throttling (slowing a site down) is easy for censors to do but hard for users to attribute or circumvent. Detecting it is tricky—lots of innocent things can make a site slow—and censorship detection platforms aren’t yet well equipped to spot it.
3/ This is the first known case where Russia has used throttling (vs outright blocking) to pressure sites into imposing its desired content restrictions.
vk.com/wall-76229642_…
Events started March 10, and we teamed with in-county activists on a rapid-focus investigation.
vk.com/wall-76229642_…
Events started March 10, and we teamed with in-county activists on a rapid-focus investigation.
