An Open Web  Edges of Autonomy  Internet filtering is a set of
techniques that censors use to try to prevent Internet users
from accessing particular content or services. Network operators
can filter at any point in a network, using a wide variety of
technologies, with varying levels of accuracy and
customizability. Typically, filtering involves using software to
look at what users are attempting to do and to selectively
interfere with activities that the operator considers forbidden
by policy. A filter could be created and applied by a national
government or by a national or local Internet access provider.
Filtering can also have very real and very harsh real world
consequences. If governments monitor an individuals online
activity and someone can be hauled away for writing something
mildly offensive online, then its pretty hard to argue the Web
is open for them regardless of the technical architecture and
freedom of the software/content.  However, advocating an
entirely ‘open web’ where all things are acces