Fwd: Merry DigitalCommonAreBlockedmas

[Tony Gosling]

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>Dear All,
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>Claire Perry and David Cameron have a present for you this 
>Christmas: website blocking, coming to every UK home in the New Year!
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>This weekend, after BT launched their new Parental Controls, we saw 
>the debate on website blocking getting serious and worrying, as 
>people asked why "respect for your partner" was something BT thought 
>parents would want to block, alongside LGBT websites and even 
><https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/blocking-what-could-possibly-go-wrong>Childline 
>at O2.
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>We aren't being given any of the information we need to check what 
>is happening as a result of new filtering tools. We don't know what, 
>how or why sites are blocked. Internet Service Providers like BT and 
>TalkTalk give minimal information. We need to know what is 
>happening, and you can help.
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>How you can help
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>ORG is putting together tools to track what is blocked and where. We 
>intend to develop our current 
><http://www.blocked.org.uk>blocked.org.uk site into a means to 
>request a check across the UK - using our own simple probes based in 
>each network.
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>We intend to make it easy for anyone, including you, to check 
>whether their site is blocked, and find out where, so that 
>complaints can be made as needed. We also want to compile a list of 
>sites that have found themselves mis-categorised, so we can check 
>for future errors.
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>In the end, we want ISPs to do this themselves. But we fear they 
>won't do until they have been shown that error checking will happen 
>anyway. So we're just going to get on with it ourselves.
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>How you can help the project
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>Join ORG
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>We need money to do this, including basic costs, and longer term 
>employing someone with technical project management skills, so if 
>you haven't already, please join us. If you already are a member, 
>ask someone new to join!
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>Development and bug reports
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>At the moment we are looking for coders and people with project 
>management skills and time. if you are interested please subscribe 
>and introduce yourself on our 
><https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/tech-volunteers>Tech 
>Volunteers list.
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>Project Details
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>The outline of the project is on our wiki: 
><https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Censorship_Monitoring_Project>https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Censorship_Monitoring_Project
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>Get the Code
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>There are three parts to this project, probes (on phones and on 
>Raspberry Pi's) some middleware to manage the probes and the website 
>front end. The code for the probes and middleware is on 
><https://github.com/openrightsgroup>Github.
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>Thank you for any help you can give - and Merry Christmas!
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>Jim Killock
>Executive Director
>Open Rights Group
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