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ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform
Arian Akhavan Niaki, Shinyoung Cho, Zachary Weinberg +4
Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor contents have taken place. Most studies have however been limited to a short period of time an…
Online Political Discourse in the Trump Era
Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner, Phillipa Gill
We identify general trends in the (in)civility and complexity of political discussions occurring on Reddit between January 2007 and May 2017 -- a period spanning both terms of Bara…
Measuring Offensive Speech in Online Political Discourse
Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner, Phillipa Gill
The Internet and online forums such as Reddit have become an increasingly popular medium for citizens to engage in political conversations. However, the online disinhibition effect…
A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level Path Churn and Network Tomography
Shinyoung Cho, Rishab Nithyanand, Abbas Razaghpanah +1
Recent years have seen the Internet become a key vehicle for citizens around the globe to express political opinions and organize protests. This fact has not gone unnoticed, with c…
The Politics of Routing: Investigating the Relationship Between AS Connectivity and Internet Freedom
Rachee Singh, Hyungjoon Koo, Najmehalsadat Miramirkhani +3
The Internet's importance for promoting free and open communication has led to widespread crackdowns on its use in countries around the world. In this study, we investigate the rel…
Holding all the ASes: Identifying and Circumventing the Pitfalls of AS-aware Tor Client Design
Rishab Nithyanand, Rachee Singh, Shinyoung Cho +1
Traffic correlation attacks to de-anonymize Tor users are possible when an adversary is in a position to observe traffic entering and exiting the Tor network. Recent work has broug…