[governance] Twitter to add to Balkanization of the Web

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

Hi,

It happens that content is blocked by one's own filters due to a load of
obnoxious ads tacked on URLs by Google.
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 16:38, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com
> wrote:

> In message <CAMz5XN5g-f+NaiBgyMVia=Fph4EU**RdaauEF_QSwH9YWC6xiUtg at mail.**
> gmail.com <Fph4EURdaauEF_QSwH9YWC6xiUtg at mail.gmail.com>>, at 10:18:33 on
> Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> writes
>
>  If content is blocked, to my understanding the user has no way of knowing
>> unless s/he is aware of that material from another source. It's the same
>> thing with 'Interception of Communications' surveillance - unless one finds
>> out, after the fact and from another source, there is no way to know that
>> it is happening. And therefore there are no grounds to complain and to
>> invoke the law. What we need is the virtual equivalent of the click created
>> when a third party picks up a telephone receiver to eavesdrop on a
>> conversation. Then we can complain and the law is helpful.
>>
>
> This is a cause of much debate in the UK, regarding what's known as a
> "splash page" to display instead of the actual content, to inform the
> viewer that it's been blocked (access denied). The alternative is to
> 'pretend' the page doesn't exist at all, and display a generic "Not found"
> message.
>
> I'm not going to comment on the merits (or demerits) of that approach.
>
> However, if you've been told about content by being given a link (either
> explicitly from another website or correspondent, or impliedly via a search
> engine) and that link returns "Not Found", one conclusion it's possible to
> draw is that the content has been blocked, and enquiries can be made from
> the source of the link.
>  --
> Roland Perry
>
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