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Internet Censorship

Sri Reddy
Internet and Web Systems 2
Presentation
Introduction
• Net censorship:
• e.g.’s: web filters; censorware; firewalls, to
some extent
• Reasons: protection of children, national
security
Home Censorship
• Protection of children from adult content
and other materials
School Censorship
• federal law enacted by Congress:
– Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
Business Censorship
• To keep employees focused and not
distracted
International Censorship
• Different countries have different views of
the internet.
• Open Net Initiative studies these issues.
Global Internet Filtering Map
Asian Censorship
• China, Burma, and Vietnam:
– Content censored includes human rights,
opposition parties
China
• China’s filtering system also known as the
Great Firewall of China
China: “9 Ways Beijing Censors the
Internet”

• Self-censorship: e.g. replace ‘Hu Jintao’


with ‘Gu Yue Wu Jin Ma Tao ’
• Filtering: ISPs delete sensitive words on
postings,
• Internet police censors
“9 Ways Beijing Censors the
Internet” (continued)

• Web master warnings


• Red tape: what can & can’t be reported
• Mother jury: what one’s mom would allow
on the internet
“9 Ways Beijing Censors the
Internet” (continued)

• Tea party invitation: posting against


government and you will drink tea w/
officials
• The Great Firewall
• 50 cent commentators: government pays
50 cents for each commentator to mold
public opinion
China: Net Access

• UltraSurf and FreeGate led the way for


Chinese net users to freely and openly
access the internet
Green Dam Goes Mobile?

• filtering software originally meant for


Chinese computers
• discussion has shifted to the cell phone
market.
Google thinks about leaving mobile
search market
• Google and Baidu  over 50% of market
share in mobile search
• If Google leaves, Baidu and Microsoft gain
an opportunity.
Google China’s outage is blamed
on Chinese firewall
• At first, claims due to technical reasons
• Later, claims due to China’s filtering
China/Taiwan
• Yahoo email accounts hacked due to
concern over Chinese separatists
China and Sweden
• Swedish prime minister expressed
importance of uncensored internet in
meeting w/ Chinese VP
Thailand
• dozens of websites blocked under state of
emergency
Vietnam
• Government denies it lead cyberattacks
against opponents of mining project
Middle Eastern/North African
Censorship
• Region has a growing market for internet
users
• Countries in the region censor to help anti-
terrorism efforts.
Bahrain
• Blackberry chat groups banned
Censorship in Commonwealth of
Independent States (Countries of
the former Soviet Union)

• Censorship exists, but not as much as


during the Cold War era.
Kyrgyzstan
• Bakiev administration shut down
opposition media weeks before April 7
Revolution, this year
European Censorship
• Goal: to filtering out child pornography,
racism, hatred, and terrorism
EU
• Some fear Eurofilter will become similar to
China’s
• A Thai princess’s condolence
– Also a hearing aid ad were found on a Finnish
list of 1000 supposed child porn websites
UK
• Digital economy bill passes
– ISPs required to send P2P warning notices to
copyright infringers
Sub-Saharan Africa Censorship
• African Internet users  less than 5
percent of world’s online population

• Kenya introduced law to suppress


terrorism,
– citizens displeased, worried about privacy
issues
– Kenyan parliament rejected new law
Ethiopia
• Human rights issues, opposition parties
Australian censorship
• Goal: to filter hate speech
• and handle copyright, defamation, and
security issues

• school networks, YouTube banned after


video posted with girl being beaten up
Australia (continued)
• Communications Minister- supporting a
internet filter to fight cybercrime
– U.S. is concerned about net censorship

• Another ‘Great Firewall’, Australia’s


U.S. censorship
• Issues: child protection, national security,
intellectual property, and web security
• reportedly after 9/11, Bush administration
wiretaps on internet interconnect points.
U.S. Censorship (continued)
• Adults’ right to access adult content
compared to youth’s right to be protected
from said content

• Communications Decency Act of 1996


– U.S. law that was created to protect children,
but found to be unconstitutional
U.S. Censorship (continued)
• “Internet’s Last Hope”:
– FCC vs. Comcast: Comcast kept right to slow
down BitTorrent
References
• The OpenNet Initiative:
http://opennet.net/research/
• http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-
censorship.htm
• Parker, Emily, “Leaping the Great Firewall of
China”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748
704896104575139742687410862.html
• http://maps.google.com/

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