Levett, Joshua, Vassilakis, Vassilios and Yadav, Poonam orcid.org/0000-0003-0169-0704 (2024) Unveiling Internet Censorship:Analysing the Impact of Nation States' Content Control Efforts on Internet Architecture and Routing Patterns. [Preprint]
Abstract
Heightened interest from nation states to perform content censorship make it evermore critical to identify the impact of censorship efforts on the Internet. We undertake a study of Internet architecture, capturing the state of Internet topology with greater completeness than existing state-of-the-art. We describe our methodology for this, including the tooling we create to collect and process data from a wide range of sources. We analyse this data to find key patterns in nation states with higher censorship, discovering a funnelling effect wherein higher Internet censorship effort is reflected in a constraining effect on a state's Internet routing architecture. However, there are a small number of nation states that do not follow this trend, for which we provide an analysis and explanation, demonstrating a relationship between geographical factors in addition to geopolitics. In summary, our work provides a deeper understanding of how these censorship measures impact the overall functioning and dynamics of the Internet.
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Item Type: | Preprint |
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Keywords: | cs.NI |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 31 May 2024 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 23:30 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.19375 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | arXiv |
Identification Number: | 10.48550/arXiv.2402.19375 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:212948 |