Re: [Pearg] Research Group Last Call for "A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques"

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Fri, 29 May 2020 13:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Pearg] Research Group Last Call for "A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques"
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Hi Lars,

> On 2020-5-28, at 19:26, Eliot Lear <lear=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>> It would strengthen your case if you can identify a domain name seizure that is based on what we commonly view as censorship.  Otherwise skip the purpose.
> 
> I don't know who "we" here is, but there are certainly many cases where domain names have been seized that *some* consider censorship. For example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/cat-domain-casualty-catalonian-independence-crackdown


That, to me, is a far better reference for several reasons:

It’s a clear attempt to interfere with information exchange by a government (that really ticks all the boxes for all the definitions I’ve seen).
It demonstrates both a physical seizure and a domain seizure.

Nice one!

Eliot