Name of the Book:
ACCESS AND EQUITY ISSUES
Book Review Chapter:
Chapter 1: Censorship and Access to Expression
Quote: Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. The legal issues are similar to offline censorship.
Learning Expectations:
Barring total control on Internet-connected computers, such as in North Korea and Cuba, total censorship of information on the Internet is very difficult (or impossible) to achieve due to the underlying distributed technology of the Internet.
Review:
The difference is that national borders are more permeable online: residents of a country that bans certain information can find it on websites hosted outside the country. Conversely, attempts by one government to prevent its citizens from seeing certain material can have the effect of restricting foreigners, because the government. Pseudonymity and allow unconditional free speech, as the technology guarantees that material cannot be removed and the author of any information is impossible to link to a physical identity or organization.
Lessons Learned
The different level, the actions and reactions of large corporations to the Internet has to be factored into any discussion of economic censorship. Some firms have paid search engine companies for preferential placement in particular subject categories when a user submits an online search inquiry.
The world are now considering the filtering system known as PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selections) as an answer to their concerns, the question of parental controls also must be addressed. In many countries, the state justifies censorship with the claim that it is acting in loco parentis. Such claims, whether interpreted as “state as parent” or “state as Big Brother,” are responsible for many of the restrictions on information distribution found today across the world.
Integrative Questions
1. What is Auto-censorship against sexual words in matter for children?
2. How the users who are not administrators, has been known to query usernames?
3. Find the Yahoo email group system’s profanity blocker, set to block the acronym CP in descriptions of email groups?
4. How to treating it as meaning “child pornography”?
5. How to block it when a journalist setting up an email group used “CP?
