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Web filtering in schools blocks students from inappropriate and distracting content across the web, while allowing sites that are selected by school administrators. [1] Rather than simply blocking off large portions of the Internet, many schools utilize customizable web filtering systems that provide them with greater control over which sites are allowed and which are blocked.
An encrypted, public, web-based circumvention system. Because the site is public, it is blocked in many countries and by most filtering applications. StupidCensorship [54] HTTP proxy: Peacefire: free: An encrypted, public, web-based circumvention system. Because the site is public, it is blocked in many countries and by most filtering applications.
The government blocks Web sites that discuss the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, the banned spiritual practice Falun Gong, as well as many general Internet sites. [81] The government requires Internet search firms and state media to censor issues deemed officially "sensitive," and blocks access to foreign websites ...
Censorship of educational research databases in the United States has been a concerted political effort since 2016. [1] [2] Activist groups that aim to change school curricula and ban books from libraries and schools are applying political and legislative pressure to limit the content in educational research databases to which libraries subscribe to give students online access to educational ...
Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).
Examples include blocking several religious sites [31] [32] (including the Web site of the Vatican), many political sites, and homosexuality-related sites. [33] X-Stop was shown to block sites such as the Quaker web site, the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law , The Heritage Foundation , and parts of The Ethical Spectacle . [ 34 ]
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Information on the exact methods and timeframes that sites were blocked is vague and anecdotal, but there was a significant amount of online discussion at the time. Optus appeared to use IP blocks for 4chan and possibly other sites. [59] [60] Telstra took a similar approach. [61]