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Opening Digital Borders Cautiously yet Decisively: Digital Filtering in Saudi Arabia

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Talkat FOCI '20 · on Tuesday, 2020-08-11· [networking, policy-and-regulation]

speakers

name:Fatemah Alharbi
website:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G840dXkAAAAJ&hl=en
name:Michalis Faloutsos
links:none on file
name:Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/FgCXZS11c9E
slides:none on file

summary

Longitudinal measurements from 2017–2020 test reachability of 18 messaging apps and Alexa’s top 500 sites in 18 categories from four Saudi cities and show concrete changes: mobile app voice/video access moves from completely blocked in 2017 to 67% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and all except WeChat in 2020; web filtering drops most in Adult (−3.4%) and Shopping (−2.2%); filtering is implemented via HTTP and TLS, and blocks correlate with geopolitical events (ISIS, Qatar, Iran, Turkey).

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chapters (9)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 2:33Outline
  3. 3:13Background
  4. 4:35Contributions
  5. 7:22Methodology - Sites
  6. 8:44Methodology - Mobile Apps
  7. 9:51Results-Apps
  8. 11:14Relation Between Geopolitical Events and Digital Filtering
  9. 12:21Conclusion

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