A Survey of Internet Censorship and its Measurement: Methodology, Trends, and Challenges
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| author | Wendzel, Steffen Volpert, Simon Zillien, Sebastian Lenz, Julia Rünz, Philip Caviglione, Luca |
| author_facet | Wendzel, Steffen Volpert, Simon Zillien, Sebastian Lenz, Julia Rünz, Philip Caviglione, Luca |
| contents | Internet censorship limits the access of nodes residing within a specific network environment to the public Internet, and vice versa. During the last decade, techniques for conducting Internet censorship have been developed further. Consequently, methodology for measuring Internet censorship had been improved as well.
In this paper, we firstly provide a survey of network-level Internet censorship techniques. Secondly, we survey censorship measurement methodology. We further cover the censorship of circumvention tools and its measurement, as well as available datasets. In cases where it is beneficial, we bridge the terminology and taxonomy of Internet censorship with related domains, namely traffic obfuscation and information hiding. We further extend the technical perspective with recent trends and challenges, including human aspects of Internet censorship. |
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| spellingShingle | A Survey of Internet Censorship and its Measurement: Methodology, Trends, and Challenges Wendzel, Steffen Volpert, Simon Zillien, Sebastian Lenz, Julia Rünz, Philip Caviglione, Luca Cryptography and Security Computers and Society Networking and Internet Architecture Internet censorship limits the access of nodes residing within a specific network environment to the public Internet, and vice versa. During the last decade, techniques for conducting Internet censorship have been developed further. Consequently, methodology for measuring Internet censorship had been improved as well. In this paper, we firstly provide a survey of network-level Internet censorship techniques. Secondly, we survey censorship measurement methodology. We further cover the censorship of circumvention tools and its measurement, as well as available datasets. In cases where it is beneficial, we bridge the terminology and taxonomy of Internet censorship with related domains, namely traffic obfuscation and information hiding. We further extend the technical perspective with recent trends and challenges, including human aspects of Internet censorship. |
| title | A Survey of Internet Censorship and its Measurement: Methodology, Trends, and Challenges |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Computers and Society Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14945 |