Whiskey, weed, and wukan on the world Wide Web: On measuring censors' resources and motivations

2nd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, FOCI 2012, co-located with USENIX Security 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Aase, Nicholas ^a   Crandall, Jedidiah R ^a   Diaz, Alvaro ^b   Knockel, Jeffrey ^a   Molinero, Jorge Ocana ^b   Saia, Jared ^a   Wallach, Dan ^c   Zhu, Tao ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Independent Researcher   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ALBUQUERQUE , NEW MEXICO; CHAT PROGRAMS; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNET CENSORSHIP; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; POSITION PAPERS;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 85084161581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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