Bypassing Internet Censorship for News Broadcasters
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News organizations are often the targets of Internet censorship. This paper will look at two technical considerations for the BBC, based on its distribution of non-English content into countries such as Iran and China, where the news services are permanently unavailable from the official BBC websites: blocking detection and circumvention. This study examines an internal BBC prototype system built in 2010 to detect online censorship of its content, and evaluates potential improvements. It will also review the BBC‟s use of circumvention tools, and consider the impact and execution of pilot services for Iran and China. Finally, the study will consider the technical delivery of the BBC‟s news output, and the methods it employs to bypass Internet censorship.
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