Anti Cameron Web Blocking Campaign Needs Your Help

[Frazzel]

Claire Perry and David Cameron have a present for you this Christmas: website blocking, coming to every UK home in the New Year!

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 Childline at O2.

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.

How you can help

ORG is putting together tools to track what is blocked and where. We intend to develop our current blocked.org.uk site into a means to request a check across the UK - using our own simple probes based in each network.

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.

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.

How you can help the project

Join ORG

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!

Development and bug reports

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 Tech Volunteers list.

Project Details

The outline of the project is on our wiki: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Censorship_Monitoring_Project

Get the Code

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 Github.

Thank you for any help you can give - and Merry Christmas!

Jim Killock
Executive Director
Open Rights Group


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