A Censored Network: Iranian Social, Political and Religious SitesA hyperlink analysis method for censored Website discovery.

© 2006 Govcom.org and ONI

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Internet Censorship Visualizations________________________2006

Data_by OpenNet Initiative and map by Issuecrawler.net.

Analysis_by Richard Rogers, Nart Villeneuve and Erik

Borra, and design_by Marieke van Dijk.

A Censored Network: Iranian Social, Political and Religious Sites

IRAN

Legend

Blocked sites

Newly discovered blocked sites

Accessible sites

Inaccessible site (owing to DNS issue)

A co-production between the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, and the

OpenNet Initiative, a partnership between the Citizen Lab at the Munk

Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center

for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the Advanced Network

Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme at Cambridge

University, and the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.

medusa2000.com

Newly discovered blocked sites:

http://home.bip.net/radiohambastegi/http://ir.mondediplo.com/http://www.alahwaz.com/http://www.ashoob.com/http://www.asre-nou.net/http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/http://www.channelonetv.com/http://www.didgah.com/http://www.didgah.net/http://www.fadaee.org/http://www.fedayi.org/http://www.fwhi.org/http://www.geocities.com/~fedaian/http://www.gozareshgar.com/http://www.iran-jommelli.com/http://www.iranazad.com/http://www.irandokht.com/http://www.komalah.org/http://www.kvinnonet.org/http://www.mani-poesie.de/http://www.medusa2000.com/http://www.mihan.net/http://www.negah1.com/http://www.peykeiran.com/http://www.radio-international.org/http://www.radiobarabari.net/http://www.rdki.com/http://www.roozonline.com/http://www.shahrvand.com/http://www.zagros.info/

alahwaz.com

alefbe.com

amnesty.org

ashoob.comasre-nou.net

avairan.com

avayeashena.com

avayezan.com

azadi-iran.org

baztab.com

bbc.co.uk/persian

channelonetv.com

cpiran.org

didgah.com

didgah.net

etehadchap.com

etehadefedaian.org

ettelaat.com

fadaee.org

fadai.org

fadaian.org

fedayi.org

forughfarrokhzad.org

fwhi.org

geocities.com/~fedaian

golshan.com

golshirifoundation.org

gooya.com

gozareshgar.com

hadisara.com

hamshahri.net

hayateno.org

home.bip.net/radiohambastegi

i-w-o.org

ihrwg.org

ilna.ir

ir.mondediplo.com

iran-chabar.de

iran-e-sabz.org

iran-emrooz.de

iran-jommelli.com

iran-newspaper.com

iran.mojahedin.org

iranazad.com

irandokht.com

iransocialforum.org

irna.com

isnagency.com

jebhe.orgjebhemelli.net

jebhemelli.org

jonge-khabar.com

kanoon-zendanian.org

kargar.org

kasravi.info

komala.org

komalah.org

kvinnonet.org

mani-poesie.de

marxists.org

marzeporgohar.org

mihan.net

nashrieh-nameh.com

negah1.com

nehzateazadi.orgnews.gooya.com

panahjoo.compayvand.com/news

pdk-iran.org

peiknet.com

peykeiran.com

radio-international.org

radiobarabari.net

radiofarda.com

radiokomaleh.com

radis.orgrahekargar.netranjbaran.org

rdki.com

rfi.fr/fichiers/Langues/rfi_persan_main.asp

rooydad.com

roozonline.com

roshangari.com

rowzane.com

sarbedaran.org

sh-shafa.com

shahrvand.com

shamlou.org

shamlu.com

sharareha.com

sharghnewspaper.com

siahkal.com

siasate-kargari.com

tehrantimes.com

toufan.org

tudehpartyiran.org

un.org

voanews.com

womeniniran.com

wpiran.org

wsu-iran.org

zagros.info

zan.org

Method & Findings:

Using Issuecrawler.net, crawl URLs (on 30 March

2006) from the OpenNet Initiative's list of Iranian

social, political and religious sites. Find network of

sites through one iteration of co-link analysis

(pictured). Fetch each site through a proxy in Iran

(on 18 May 2006). Discover sites previously

unknown to be blocked. Compare newly discovered

blocked sites with entire list of Iranian Websites

checked by the OpenNet Initiative. The finding is

the discovery of 30 blocked sites in Iran.

Size of node indicates inlink count from network.