This comes from Tom Hoffman who asked for some linkage to spread the word about this.

Harvard has created a way for schools to report and therefore aggregate a list of all the sites getting blocked. They call it HerdictWeb. And Tom has a very good idea:

What we need people to do is use Herdict behind school firewalls to explore and report what sites are blocked. When testing sites you can specify that you’re at a school, and add additional notes. Right now, nobody knows what sites are being blocked across the country, what the patterns are, how much political speech is being blocked, etc. Getting a handle on what’s actually being implemented on the ground in schools is the first step.

We’ll be doing this at SLA. Who else wants to join?

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