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The Open Net Initiative (ONI) has consolidated five years of nation-state Internet censorship and surveillance research into a recently published book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. Access Denied significantly advances our ongoing discussion of methods for reducing global Internet IP packet friction, particularly at national borders and their virtual gateways. Access Denied has published an excellent first approximation of relative indexes for nation-state censorship and surveillance.1

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Access Denied focuses on the technology of IP packet impediment, but ultimately nation-state sponsored packet friction is the manifestation of symptoms for a widespread illness—the inability of the nation-state to understand, mediate, and resolve conflicts as virtual boundaries elide national boundaries—treatment begins by recognizing the symptoms.

ONI’s, Access Denied has begun the important work of documenting the developing symptoms of this serious pandemic illness—an essential read for everyone working² or planning to work treating the symptoms of nation-state Internet censorship and surveillance!

Res: The Open Net Initiative (ONI)

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1. When the second edition is published its editors will help readers and improve readability by differentiating between regimes and regimens.

It will help readers distinguish the dictatorial regimes from the oppressive IP censorship and surveillance regimens they implement.

2. For example the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007, H.R. 275, has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives.

It aims to increase online freedom of expression and decrease nation-state coercion of multi-national entities.