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)

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

radioleh.com

radis.org

rahekargar.net

ranjbaran.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.