Comments on: Sniffing out censorship http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/11/01/sniffing-out-censorship/ Design and human behaviour Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: ron scheckelhoff http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/11/01/sniffing-out-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-408559 ron scheckelhoff Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:12:38 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=155#comment-408559 Architecture of the internet is moving towards uniformity via Web 2 standards, which are heralded as a bonanza of information sharing capabilities. The dark side of this is never mentioned, but it exists nonetheless as an enabler of centralized systems that can read the structure of all presented internet based information to enhance and perfect control and censorship models. It is becoming ever more difficult for smallish sized internet publishers, in the face of over-sized industrial machine-press onslaught. At some point in time, long passed, one might have occasionally stumbled across that elusive animal known as the professional writer ... The animal some consider as ever having been only an element of mythology is extinct now, of course, and has been replaced by legions of hobbyist and semi-literate bloggers. Journalists are gone too, as the three big companies that control journalistic print media have only the company line propaganda to deliver, and that doesn't cover much. Sneaky censorship will, with substantial likelihood, eventually undo even the tenacious hobbyist writer, as any writing that is against the will of the state will be afforded open access only for search-engine-bots (so that Google entries attest to the existence of such "dissident" writing), but actual "click-through" traffic will be denied. It is what I call "sneaky censorship". I believe that already today, such a scenario has befallen many of us, and I proffer my own sites as examples: (www.fourcalorieservers.com, www.scheckelhoffs.org, etc) Surely you will not get there from here. Don't bother to send an email either. If it's not spam mail, it won't reach me. - Ron Scheckelhoff Architecture of the internet is moving towards uniformity via Web 2 standards, which are heralded as a bonanza of information sharing capabilities. The dark side of this is never mentioned, but it exists nonetheless as an enabler of centralized systems that can read the structure of all presented internet based information to enhance and perfect control and censorship models. It is becoming ever more difficult for smallish sized internet publishers, in the face of over-sized industrial machine-press onslaught.

At some point in time, long passed, one might have occasionally stumbled across that elusive animal known as the professional writer … The animal some consider as ever having been only an element of mythology is extinct now, of course, and has been replaced by legions of hobbyist and semi-literate bloggers.

Journalists are gone too, as the three big companies that control journalistic print media have only the company line propaganda to deliver, and that doesn’t cover much.

Sneaky censorship will, with substantial likelihood, eventually undo even the tenacious hobbyist writer, as any writing that is against the will of the state will be afforded open access only for search-engine-bots (so that Google entries attest to the existence of such “dissident” writing), but actual “click-through” traffic will be denied. It is what I call “sneaky censorship”.

I believe that already today, such a scenario has befallen many of us, and I proffer my own sites as examples: (www.fourcalorieservers.com, http://www.scheckelhoffs.org, etc)

Surely you will not get there from here.

Don’t bother to send an email either. If it’s not spam mail, it won’t reach me.

– Ron Scheckelhoff

]]> By: sarchi http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/11/01/sniffing-out-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-13171 sarchi Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:16:00 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=155#comment-13171 It's interesting to see that I posted a comment on the now removed technology message board about creative commons when the bbc were hosting a media event on the subject and was promptly removed [sic] It’s interesting to see that I posted a comment on the now removed technology message board about creative commons when the bbc were hosting a media event on the subject and was promptly removed [sic]

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