Putin Should Be Banned In Russia

Angst! Peur! Miedo! Страх! Fear! Regardless of what language it is said in, fear carries the same meaning. As some may say, fear is what can be seen throughout the United States of America as President Trump takes his first days in the White House. This fear has come from the idea that the social transformation Barack Obama has begun since his first day in office, eight years ago, may be coming to an end. Disregarding what may happen next in politics, fear has helped to expose the problems that today’s society has related to human rights. It can be seen in today’s news that; this exposure has motivated people to join arms and push for change. Jaswinder Bolina is one of those people. In his article “Writing Like a White Guy” Bolina dives

“There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.” -Vladimir Lenin. Because of the changes in Russia’s government and economy over the years, authoritarianism has changed drastically, but the common theme of strong government and limited freedom for citizens has stayed the same.

Newth, Mette. "Russia: Forbidden Books and Newspapers." Beacon for Freedom of Expression. 2002. Web. 18 Apr. 2017.

They are trying to put a face to the crime and bring criminal charges to this person. Russia is getting away with way too much criminal activity without getting punished for it. Social media and censorship how twitter does not hold any censorship to its users. Put there is one case where a Tennessee teacher was suspended on twitter. The Tennessee college thinks the teacher should stand up for his freedom of speech and supports the teacher. How can you forget Harambe the beloved gorilla that was killed because a little boy wandered into his zoo enclosure? The following week came so many Harambe memes that covered the internet accept one university UMass finds the memes to be offensive to the African American race. Students where not fully band from making sides but do it at your own risk because in their hand book they would get a fine. For freshman, they have no tolerance’s they don’t have the same freedom as the upperclassmen even tho there is no deafferents. There are many colleges these days ask students to specify the pronouns, majority of the students used he/him/his or she/her/her. You can quite clear pick a preferred pronoun out of your

The government also took action to prevent the spread of radical, and even liberal, ideas. Press freedom was severely restricted, with fourteen major newspapers being banned between 1882 and 1889 for displaying ‘liberal’ tendencies. Foreign books and newspapers were also rigorously censored by the Okhrana (the secret police) in order to prevent dangerous foreign ideas, such as democracy and parliamentary government, reaching the Russian people.

In the Age of Information or the Era of the Internet, everyone is connected. Everyone carries around a computer in their pocket with more than enough computing power to send a man to the moon. Invisibly, data is constantly flowing. Virtually everything we interact with in today’s world has one thing in common: the internet. It plays a huge role in everything from sharing pictures with friends to the election. It is widely accessible and houses a wealth of information. Anyone should be able to access the network of data that is the internet. However, just as this Swiss Army Knife of innovation can be applied towards the common good, it can also be limited and used nefariously—an action that manifests itself in the form of censorship. Internet

Without censorship, the public was able to criticize the same government that had allowed them to speak freely, which again shows the lack of separation between previous Soviet governments, and Gorbachev’s government. This tension between the government and the people created disorder in society, and it would be logical to assume that a government that had previously held absolute control over the public would panic over this wave of dissent and chaos that they were unable to control. Contrary to this logical belief, Stephen Cohen explains that Gorbachev did not fear chaos because he acknowledged that it was necessary for reform to occur. Unfortunately for Gorbachev, the crimes that were revealed from the Stalinist years, in addition to the

Russia today does contain censorship, and in some cases, there is stifling of peoples’ rights, but not to the extent where it could

Reporters without Boarders further talked of why these regulations present a new block for free speech. “What Netizen will dare to criticize the regime after meeting the person who could put them behind bars for one wrong word?”(Anonymous) Reporters Without Borders is further stating that someone who might talk about something the government might find questionable will not do it at all if that person is met by someone who could put them in prison.

With the dominant party being United Russia (Putin’s party), Putin has absolutely no tolerance for opposition parties. Although there are some minor opposition parties in Russia, including Communist Party of Russian Federation and A Just Russia, Putin is very anti these parties and has even gone to the extreme of jailing and killing some citizens who are not considered to be a part of United Russia. One of the most famous cases of Putin-blamed killings is the case of Boris Nemtsov. Boris Nemtsov was a very outspoken citizen for the liberal opposition party of United Russia and critic of Putin was murdered in 2015. Other famous cases include Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Garry Kasparov, Alexei Navalny, Igor Strelkov and Sergei Udaltsov.

In, 2001, the Internet censorship laws went to the ultimate extreme. If state secrets are exported from China, the government can impose harsh penalties such as imprisonment and confiscation all belongings, and in extreme cases, the death penalty. In 2002, China banned those under the age of 18 from using Internet cafes. Internet cafe users are banned from viewing websites pose threats to “state security” i.e. websites with violence, sexuality, or heretic messages.

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

Some accredited organizations like RWB (Reporters Without Borders) journalists calling them “Enemies of the Internet” and some blocking common websites such as Google web based services, many nations have been accused of over censoring the internet and also keeping a stringent authority by closely monitoring any activity their citizens do on the world wide web. Over 4.6 billion people around the globe do not have access to the internet.2400 sites have been shut down and censored by nations that contain policit forums, world news, and other historical events such as the Holocaust and over 63 journalists have been sentenced to death by the governments for usage

There is only one cyber cafe in North Korea, and it is in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital city. North Korea “built its own custom-built operating system”(Lee), which is named Red Star. It is used on the computers in Pyongyang's cyber cafe. One crazy rule in North Korea is every time Kim Jong Un’s name shows up anywhere on any page on the internet, it has to be programmed on every pages code to be slightly bigger than the rest of the text on that page, “just enough to make it stand out” (Lee). The people of North Korea are “intentionally starved” out of any information except government propaganda (Lee). If you want to buy a computer in North Korea, it will probably cost about “three months of your salary, so people rarely do. They only have one high-speed internet cable while other countries like the United Kingdom, and the United States of America have “dozens” of them, so if one of the links fail we will be able to maintain it. North Korea won't be able to. It is easier for North Korea to control though with only one cable. (Sparks) Other countries like Russia try to use other countries ideas. Russia is trying to “copy” what China is doing with their internet. At first Russia’s internet was mostly free of censorship, but after a large anti-corruption protest in russia that was created through the use of the internet, Vladimir Putin feels that Russia’s internet should be more like China's. In

Similar to broadcast media, most print outlets are maintained by the government or groups in favour of the government, and do not include content critical of the country. In addition, the Kazakh government has full authority over the printing press and private media are often forced to rely on state subsidies because of the government’s restriction on advertising. As internet usage continues to increase, to 73 percent of the population in 2015, the Kazakh government continues to hold a majority stake in the country’s largest internet provider, Kazakhtelecom, and has implemented policies that ban politically affiliated websites, as well as social media, and blogs that condemn the control by the authoritarian Kazakh regime. During the time period between 2015-2016, large prison sentences were handed to social media users, which effectively declined internet freedom in the country. The introduction of the “National Security Certificate” allowed greater surveillance online. According to Amnesty International, prosecutors utilized the legal system to target individuals that practise dissent on the government. In a particular case, Yermek Narymbaev and Serikzhan Mambetalin were sentenced to respective prison terms for posting on Facebook parts of an unpublished book that was offensive to ethnic Kazakhs. The Kapital Newspaper of Kazakhstan reported that this detention by the Department of Internal Affairs was due to the spread of information regarding “inciting