I'm a 31 year old American expat living in Oslo, Norway, with my bulldog, Ada, and my husband, Johannes. My interests include interaction design, especially information architecture, philosophy of mind and ethics, cognitive psychology, sociobiology, feminism, yoga, fat acceptance, knitting, pottery, and cooking.Norway is filtering the internet?
Apparently internet access in Norway is being filtered:
No, I wasn’t surfing for kiddie porn; here are the Google results showing the link I clicked:
What happens when you click on that link?
It turns out that it’s NextGenTel, my ISP, that’s doing the filtering:
Here is the traceroute result from the US:
I’ve linked several screenshots that tell the whole story on Flickr.
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Yes, many scandinavian ISP’s are doing DNS based filtering of hostnames primarily used for commercial hosting of child abuse material.
In this case, home.tampabay.rr.com is on the list of filtered hostnames, and based on the name, it looks like a generic web hotel for roadrunner customers. It would then be out-of-scope of the filter, and should therefore not have been on the list. If you wish, send kripos a mail, they should handle it professionally, investigate, and remove the hostname from the list.
To avoid using the filter, use your own DNS server at home, or see if your ISP provides an unfiltered DNS server, as I think some do.
yes, the filter is called Child Sexual Abuse Anti Distribution Filter. This filter was made by Telenor in coop with the KRIPOS.
since then many norwegian ISP have joined.
http://press.telenor.com/PR/200409/961319_5.html
I knew why and how it was being done, and I know how to get around it–I am a proper geek! Rather, I didn’t know that my connection was filtered in this way. (I guess I don’t go to kiddie porn sites often enough to notice?) I did send an e-mail to Kripos, and I got a friendly response back shortly thereafter. It’s good to know that there are people paying attention.
[…] There are various countries who are testing out such filtering software, one of them being Denmark. Obviously for the list of address to be effective, it has to be hidden. Something that doesn’t add to the transparency of the project. Such a listed leaked earlier in Sweden, with less that 1% of the content having illegal content. I can’t find the link again, but here is an amusing example of what is being filtered[en]. […]
[…] There are various countries who are testing out such filtering software, one of them being Denmark. Obviously for the list of address to be effective, it has to be hidden. Something that doesn’t add to the transparency of the project. Such a listed leaked earlier in Sweden, with less that 1% of the sites having illegal content[en]. I can’t find the link again, but here is an amusing example of what is being filtered[en]. […]