8 free-world-expanding projects are proposed here to improve #netneutrality and/or counter rampant #censorship:
Vote for the project that you think would be most beneficial. This is the 1st four of 8 proposals. Please vote in both polls.
Poll 1/2:
@koherecoWatchdog
Are you aware of @ooni ?
@federico3 @ooni not in much detail. I think I had an Ooni Observatory something or other running on my machine at one point. Looks like it's to collect network-level censorship
@koherecoWatchdog @ooni to detect censorship on web pages #ooni checks if the contents remain the same when accessed from different locations.
@federico3 @ooni sounds quite useful, although it wouldn't be able to dectect the "censorship whistleblower" tool that I'm proposing. We need a tool that checks content differences between a logged-in session and a logged-out session. I don't suppose ooni could handle that.
@koherecoWatchdog
#ooni can detect known strings in the HTML body, if that's enough. Otherwise please talk to us; real world examples would be useful.
@federico3 @koherecoWatchdog When Reddit shadowbans a post, that post will appear the same from all locations and networks. I believe the only way to detect the censorship in an automated and generic way is if the detection tool has the userid and password of the user, and logs in, and then checks the contents of the post.
@resist1984 @koherecoWatchdog #ooni captures the HTML body and stores it centrally. Theoretically it would be possible to compare the content of the same page over time and flag changes. Logging in, instead, could be very messy to implement as it might often trigger anti-spam/anti-bot mitigations.
@koherecoWatchdog @federico3 When an original post is censored, it doesn't even appear in the timeline. So even if ooni were to look for the word "[removed]", it may not even be able to crawl to find such posts if the timeline excludes them.