A Review of the Issues Surrounding Internet Censorship and Cross-National Information Conflict

The fourth considers the shift made, From ARPANET to Internet approaching defense and research. The fifth section covers The Internet in the Arena of International Standards. The final section, Popularizing the Internet, shows the beginning of the wide spread of the Internet but before Internet connectivity becomes popular at the personal level. All things considered, the book states the expansions in Internet history between 1959 and 1991, with some proceedings to 1994.

Internet censorship refers to the suppression and control of what people can access, publish, or view on the cyberspace (Reynolds, 2014). It may be done by regimes or private firms at the command of the government. It can be a government’s initiative is or carried out by regulators. Organizations and individuals may practice self-censorship for religious, business or moral reasons to comply with societal norms, out of fear of consequences such as legal impact, or owing to intimidation. The degree of cyberspace censorship differs on a nation-to-nations basis. Most democratic nations have moderate cyberspace censorship. Other nations go as far as to restrict the information accessibility; they suppress discussion among citizens and limit news. Internet censorship can also occur in anticipation of or in response to events like protests, riots or elections. An ideal example is the increased level of censorship owing to the Arab Spring events. Other censorship areas include defamation, copyrights, obscene material and harassment.

Censorship in China has gained much attention recently because of the conflict between Google and the Chinese government’s self-censorship policies. In fact, censorship has been practiced since ancient China and the intensity only increases by the years. Nowadays, the most notable measure of censorship is being done on the Internet. More and more restrictions have been put into actions by the Chinese government, which make the life of Chinese Internet users, the Chinese netizens, very inconvenient. With the intensity of censorship increasing and the censoring technology improving, Internet censorship has mainly negative effects on Chinese society.

In this paper, I will compare and contrast Internet censorship in Canada and China. While China is widely known for censoring the Internet for political reasons, Canada remains relatively free of censorship. Through this paper I argue that the large differences between censorship in Canada and China are due to their inherent political systems. Currently, China is the leading country in Internet censorship technology, policy and practice. By comparing China, a secular country, to Canada, I intend to show one of the biggest contrasts in censoring ideologies in the world.

Since the internet is a huge platform, for the government to be able to regulate every single thing that would be a threat or is meant to hurt someone is next to impossible. Many big social media companies regulate their website by algorithm, when a certain amount of people report a post that is offensive or is meant to hurt someone emotionally, it will be taken down. According to Self-regulation of Internet Content, “Filtering technology can empower users by allowing them to select the kinds of content they and their children are exposed to. Used wisely, this technology can help shift control of and responsibility for harmful content from governments, regulatory agencies, and supervisory bodies to individuals” (Pg.9). Therefore, regulating the content that is posted on the internet is a crucial step that is needed to be taken to insure that people are not able to emotionally hurt someone with an internet

With today’s technology, communication and information can travel across the world in a matter of seconds. Ever since the internet was first made publically available in 1991 the ease of accessing entertainment, education, and information has been increasing every year. We now live in an age where roughly 30% of all people in the entire world are connected to the web ("World Internet Usage Statistics New and World Population Stats"). However, despite the obvious advantages of the internet’s freedom, some countries are trying to control the internet and display what it deems appropriate for the public eye. Many countries, including Australia, China, and North Korea implement a system to filter web content. Even the United States is now

With how vast and expansive the internet is today, online censorship is a huge debate that will always be ongoing. There are mainly two sides of this debate. One side says that online censorship is needed no matter what, and the other side says that the internet is free and that the internet can never be controlled by the on company or even the government. While both sides have a great point, there is still a side to take.

Internet Censorship has been a topic of much debate and growing concern in the past decade. According to the OpenNet Initiative, the number of countries seeking to control access of content on the internet has been rising rapidly (Documenting Internet Content Filtering Worldwide n.d). Reporters Without Borders published a list of thirteen countries as ‘internet enemies’ in 2006. The list consisted of Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam (List of the 13 Internet Enemies in

This paper explores the pros and cons of government involvement in controlling the content of the Internet. Everyday technology is getting more sophisticated, meaning that nowadays it is easy to explore about a certain issue via online connection and be near the world. In the present, as long as you have Internet connection, you have the ability to have access to all kind of information that is posted on Internet. There is a huge debate whether internet should be regulated or not, and this is excepted to continue in the upcoming years. Those who support the information epoch, tend to consider Internet to be essential and productive in educating its population. However, those who don’t favor content on the internet want to build

Internet censorship in China, South Africa and other countries is something that prohibits real discussion from taking place regarding issues that affect the public. For instance, in China, certain key word searches are automatically filtered out so that users cannot find the information they are seeking. While Internet censorship may be good from one perspective (in terms of stemming the flow of child pornography, curbing false information, or putting a nation’s interests first), it can be viewed as bad from another perspective (in terms of cutting down on the opportunity to inform sides of a dialogue, promoting free exchange of ideas, or discussing why one form of pornography is allowed but not another). This paper will show why Internet censorship can be interpreted in both positive and negative ways depending on the perspective that one adopts (whether one is pro-Statist or anti-Statist). In short, pros and cons depend wholly upon one’s worldview and outlook.

When thinking about the Internet, one always appears to assume that the development of computer technology has been driven by a few giants of the industry. Indeed, we always assume that it is the big people that made it. And yet, the truth is very different. The authors show us how many of the developments surrounding the Internet were brought about with the support and often the leadership of the government. Indeed, it was the government funding that made a lot of these realities possible. Thus, this is basically a case study of what the development of networking achieved.

The Internet is also called “Information superhighway” because of the limitless amount of data that one person can access from it. The fact is not all of us can access the Internet like what it is. There are many roadblocks on the superhighway in form of “Internet Censorship”. There are several kinds of motivations for censorship. It ranges from keeping children away from undesirable content to a government control of nation’s access of information. In China, the internet censorship is especially strong. According to the study of Chinese Internet censorship by OpenNetInitiative “China operate the most extensive, technologically sophisticated, and broad-reaching system of Internet filtering in the word”(OpenNetInitiative 2005). In this essay, I want to write about how the “Internet censorship” working in China and why China government is running such strong regulations controlling internet.

Internet censorship does not only happen in the United States either. In Russia, a Wikipedia page was ordered to be blocked because it had information about a banned type of cannabis. President Vladimir Putin has passed laws that block websites that contain child pornography, indorse suicide, or have drug-related content. Although blocking some of these websites can be good, it is also not fair to take away information about these topics (Winning). Similarly, in China the government also censors the internet. “The Great Firewall” phrase was coined to describe the censorship. The government has blocked anything that seems hostile towards the Communist Party’s view. They have blocked Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. Google has even been blocked and people can only use the heavily censored search engine Baidu. This means that the government can control what websites you can look at on a certain topic. For example, if the Chinese government does not want people being influenced by democracy they will block any websites that pertain to democracy. People are not the only ones affected by internet censorship either (Denyer).

It is only in the past year or two that we have begun to see the

The primary focus of this research is about internet regulation. In this contemporary society, the internet has become part of many people, and it serves several purposes among the world at large. Globally, the phenomenon about the Internet regulation is on the rise since several countries execute such policies, right from Asian authoritarian systems to the Western democracies. Surprisingly, the enormous majority of the Internet users are not cognizant that they use an already filtered form of the World Wide Web because of the non–transparent guiding principle of sundry governments that can lead to a very chancy precedent for the future of the Internet. Additional countries have started to substitute the simple way of gaining access to various websites with more refined techniques that give Internet Service Providers the opening to regulate the Internet with efficiency and ease. Well, a decade ago, Internet regulation at a domestic level was utilized exclusively by the authoritarian systems, but since then several Western democracies have fulfilled (or attempted to implement) same systems. By 2009, the number of nations that had experienced particular kind of Web censorship had doubled up over 2008. The trend exposes a gradual enactment of Internet regulation structures at a domestic level.