A World Map to Outwit Web Censors

One from The NYTimes Says, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Citizen Lab have joined with the Program for Security in International Society at the University of Cambridge in England for what could become the biggest project to collaborate on \”mapping\” the Internet for such blockages, whether they are imposed by governments, Internet service providers, corporations or even public libraries. The project will involve the enlistment of thousands of volunteers around the world, organizers say.

\”The general idea is that when we talk about the World Wide Web, \’world\’ and \’wide\’ are no longer to be taken for granted,\” said Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor and co-director of the Berkman Center. \”Our worry is that barriers are coming up left and right, and they are more likely to come up if they can come up stealthily.\”