Censorship Monitoring Project Blocked.org.uk Notes

18.01.14 Notes

Core goals

  • Check box to opt-in to having their story considered for publication
  • POST url to API
  • Return information we have about status of URL (i.e. no information, % chance blocked on which networks)

User experience of form

  • Get rid of drop down box for carrier once API is implemented
  • Separate form in two parts- one for submitting just the URL, a second for story?
  • Call to action (MP etc.)
  • Already there: contact information for ISPs
  • Farm submitter info for future ORG stuff- already there
  • List of things they might want to complain about i.e.
    • How long to unblock it
    • If they could unblock it
    • Trouble they had unblocking it
    • Was it egregiously miscategorized
    • Financial harm to business or self etc.
    • How else it’s affected them

User experience of website

Additional web pages proposed

  • Add a blog to the website

Offer an option for people to tell us their blocking story. Perhaps just a tick box to say we can contact you again. Then these stories could be turned into blog posts. See the http://everydaysexism.com/ as an example of this. The sheer mass of stories is what has the impact.

  • Explain the blocking situation and the project concept in easy to understand terms to newcomers.
    • Include an infographic on the site on blocking statistics,
    • A flash video telling the story of how the filters came to be
    • Adapting old ww1 posters to advertise the situation we are in
    • A page of ‘blocking myths’ to challenge

Division of reporting blocked URLs and reporting stories

  1. Possibility : Central focus would be submission, At the bottom a few stories.
  2. Possibility : One site for reporting with. Pros, less likely to scare off people reporting. Cons, journalists might link to stories- better to have on one site?

Interesting slashdot article with advice we should consider:

The moral, it seems, is that if you want an example of a censored web site to stick in people's minds, it either has to be a forgivable error, or an insane vindictive dick move -- because in either of those cases, people will understand why it happened. The vast swaths of censored websites on the spectrum in between, the ones for which there is no rational explanation for the blocking, go ignored."

From http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/01/21/1357209/sites-blocked-by-smartfilter-censored-in-saudi-arabia

Actors

  • Website owners
  • Journalists
  • Annoyed person

We came up with 2 clear different submission types:

A: I found this site blocked and I think ORG should know about it.

B: I own a website/am curious, Is this site blocked?

Questions were asked around how we prioritise the two types of submission?

Publishing stories

  • Heavily curated or allow it to be publicly submitted?
  • Heavily curated seems to be best idea in the near present.

Flagging stories by category

A way to flag category. Is this feature creep?

Categories of interest:

  • sex education
  • general education
  • lgbtq
  • abuse helplines
  • social media, blog, forum
  • political site
  • businesses
  • other

Design

Wireframes

File:Blocked-wireframes-1.pdf

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