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The UK's Open Rights Group is improving its website censorship monitoring platform Blocked.org.uk.
ORG is running a project to end the imposition of web blocking by ISPs and the Government.
Since the start of the year ORG's community of technical volunteers have been turning blocked.org.uk into an automated platform for censorship detection, reporting and research.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Open4D on Tuesday April 15 2014, @11:26AM
The ORG's focus seems to be on monitoring sites that are blocked on mobile / cellular networks. (Though there is also an entry in the drop-down for "Broadband".) I suppose this makes sense. The blocking is supposedly to protect children, and it is harder for parents to do that themselves when it comes to mobile networks. So it's not surprising that blocking is more aggressive - and thus more of a problem - on mobile networks.
N.B. I hope the ORG consider / considered feeding their data into http://herdict.org/ [herdict.org], - which is a general purpose reporting site for website inaccessibility.
I urge everyone to report these kinds of problems one way or another, no matter where in the world they are.