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- How is this not marketing for large websites?
Facebook doesn’t give a shit about censorship, beyond it means a limited audience.
by drfloyd51 - I’d be careful to use a tool like this because it will look like you are going to these sites in question.by fractal618
- Would be cool if it also measured the latency and throughput across many different protocols to detect deviations from net neutrality.by 1e1a
- Is this an “instantly be arrested by the secret police” app for those where such things are censored?
The glowing reviews would reflect quite the survivor bias.
by fnordpiglet - I really wonder if anyone installs it on their machine. May be I am one off but I am Hearing about this for first time, don't recognize any of their partners.by sandeepkd
- For everyone in this thread saying "but the platforms!", I don't disagree with you. Extensive censorship exists. But I don't believe that's the intended purpose of this tool and the metrics it collects. It doesn't measure censorship at what we would call layers 4-7 in the OSI model. It's concerned with IP reachability and layer 3. It collects valid data for that purpose.by walrus01
- Hmm.
I'd wager the vast majority of internet censorship is within platform, like that done by Reddit mods.
The most egregious example I've seen in my lifetime was when old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article, down to blocking sharing in DMs.
It seems that type of example is entirely missed here. Is there any attempt to capture that signal?
- There's a pretty bad bias problem here because the probe app scans domains that are frequently blocked in dictatorships, but doesn't scan domains that are frequently blocked in "democracies", like Anna's Archive. Then it ends up looking like the dictatorship countries have all the censorship.by mitxela