IT: New Report: Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs Wayback archive

Seth Finkelstein sethf@sethf.com
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:08:47 -0500


New anticensorware report from Seth Finkelstein:
Available at: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php
The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive

Abstract: This report examines how various censorware programs blacklist 
an extensive (100 Terabytes) web-site archive called the "Wayback Machine".
The control requirements of censorware lead to considering this
archive site as a "Loophole" or "proxy avoidance systems". The
censorware slippery-slope logic (or flying leap off a sharp cliff)
leading to suppressing such a digital library is discussed.

The Wayback Machine is at http://web.archive.org/

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