Citizen Lab releases guide to bypassing Internet censors

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Citizen Lab releases guide to bypassing Internet censors

Countries like China and North Korea are well-known Internet censors, but the issue is a global one that includes countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen, to name a few. In fact, according to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, there are at least 25 countries worldwide that engage in Internet censorship practices. Some of them are extremely strict, such as Iran’s practice of filtering out discussions of politics, gay and lesbian issues, women’s rights, and the work of many bloggers. But even countries with few content restrictions have certain rules—think of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in the US, which requires all public institutions to block obscene content but has been repeatedly found to block much more than porn at places like public libraries, where people expect to be able to find information.