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URL shortening. The URL shortener on Meta-Wiki. URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL.
China. YouTube was first blocked in China for over five months from October 16, 2007 [7] to March 22, 2008. [8] It was blocked again from March 24, 2009, although a Foreign Ministry spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny whether YouTube had been blocked. [9] Since then, YouTube has been inaccessible from mainland China. [10]
Internet censorship circumvention. Internet censorship circumvention, also referred to as going over the wall ( Chinese: 翻墙; pinyin: fān qiáng) [1] [2] or scientific browsing ( Chinese: 科学上网; pinyin: kēxué shàngwǎng) [3] in China, is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship . There are many different ...
Other methods of appeal. Help:I have been blocked. If you are blocked because of something you've done, you should not create a new account to file an appeal or continue editing. This is considered sockpuppetry and block evasion and the new account will usually be blocked. Appeals related to an existing block should be submitted as described below.
In March 2014, in the midst of the Crimean crisis, the LiveJournal blog of Alexei Navalny, Kasparov.ru and Grani.ru were blocked by the government. These sites, which opposed the Russian government, were blocked for "making calls for unlawful activity and participation in mass events held with breaches of public order."
By 2008, Iran had blocked access to more than five million websites, whose content was deemed as immoral and anti-social. Below is an incomplete list of well-known websites blocked by Iran: File hosting: General: Internet Archive; Videos: YouTube, Twitch, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Nico Video, Newgrounds
This is a list of websites that are blocked in Singapore. Under the responsibility of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), these websites are mainly unlicensed gambling, pimping (known as vice related activities), copyright infringement/piracy, and for spreading falsehoods. Some websites may be blocked as suspected scam websites. [1]
Internet portal. v. t. e. Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as, Wikipedia.org) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.