{"id":246,"date":"2022-07-29T06:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/?p=246"},"modified":"2022-07-29T06:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:44:46","slug":"a-bestiary-of-blocking-the-motivations-and-modes-behind-website-unavailability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/2022\/07\/29\/a-bestiary-of-blocking-the-motivations-and-modes-behind-website-unavailability\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This paper examines different reasons for web inaccessibility. Prior work on accessibility mostly focuses on censorship by nation-states. We look at three forms of server-side blocking: blocking visitors from the EU to avoid GDPR compliance, blocking based upon the visitor\u2019s country, and blocking due to security concerns. We argue that these and other forms of blocking warrant more research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/foci18\/presentation\/tschantz\" style=\"background-color:#467baa\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper examines different reasons for web inaccessibility. Prior work on accessibility mostly focuses on censorship by nation-states. We look at three forms of server-side blocking: blocking visitors from the EU to avoid GDPR compliance, blocking based upon the visitor\u2019s country, and blocking due to security concerns. We argue that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recypher.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}