New app maps Internet censorship around the world
Mapping Countries That Censor the Internet from The Atlantic reviews a beta app for mobile phones that test connectivity (access) to Internet sites, with a web-connectivity test and ‘a probe that checks for hardware that censors or alters traffic on a network’. OONI, Amnesty International and CitizenLab have collaborated on this or closely-related reports, including this interactive world map depicting censorship statistics.
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