Every rose has its thorn: Censorship and surveillance on social video platforms in China

5th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, FOCI 2015, co-located with USENIX Security 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Knockel, Jeffrey ^a,b   Crete Nishihata, Masashi ^b   Ng, Jason Q ^b   Senft, Adam ^b   Crandall, Jedidiah R ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; NETWORK SECURITY; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION CONTROL; SET OF RULES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL VIDEOS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 85084163356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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