In today’s lecture, we’ll discuss two threats to the Internet that have emerged over the last few years: network surveillance and network censorship. Network surveillance is the act of monitoring a user’s network activity (e.g., who the user is talking to, what the user is talking about, and when the user is talking). Network surveillance is typically done in secret so that the user being monit...

The tug-of-war on the Internet between censor and anti-censor technologies is intensifying. With an aim to raise awareness on Internet censorship and its circumvention, this paper and its companion Part II present a conceptual study of Internet censorship and anti-censorship. This first paper focuses on Internet censorship. It outlines an historical account of censorship through the lens of new...