Talk:Internet censorship
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Hey this section is missing something. There is no mention of indirect internet censorship. What is indirect censorship?
Forum: User can't discuss anything illegal(can't give explicit instructions on how to build a bomb for example), since it's against the forum rules. If he does, a moderator will reprimend him. Why is this against the rules? The company that hosts the forum will take the forum down if anything illegal is discussed. Why will they take the forum down? Because the government will punish the host for the illegal content of that forum!
ISP: Have to follow the ISP's terms of service. Which will always indicate that the service can't used for illegal purposes. The ISP has no moral substance, they just don't want to get in trouble with the government!
- Huh? I don't follow. What exactly is it that you feel the article is missing? --Ardonik.talk() 19:29, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
What I'm saying is that what people are free to discuss on the internet is interfered with by the government indirectly. Basically, people can't discuss anything illegal(certain parts of illegal stuff anyways) on the internet. The government doesn't need to individually track down people and charge them for discussing illegal stuff. Website hosts, and administrators of chatrooms or message boards do this for the government(not charge individuals, just prevent them from discussing such topics). Not always because they agree with the law mind you, but they are simply protecting themselves from being sure
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[edit] Article name
Cyberspace? That word is so 1990s. Would anyone object to moving Censorship in cyberspace to Internet censorship? Wmahan. 02:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. JonHarder 11:53, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Haakon 12:51, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Skinnyweed 18:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. – drw25 (talk) 19:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be any dissenters, so I went ahead and moved it. Yell at me if I acted too soon :-) Haakon 19:49, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. I've fixed up all the linking articles to use the new name. Wmahan. 02:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if the Indian govt have ordered all of blogspot to be blocked. News reports suggest otherwise.
The Indian governement has not ordered all of blogspot etc to banned. Details of the ongoing ban are available at http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Bloggers_Against_Censorship. Have included detail that point to this though and created a new page for "Internet Censorship in India". Shrichriswiki 10:51, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Internet censorship in Saudi Arabia
The Internet is also censored on a country-wide basis in Saudi Arabia, by means of proxy servers and content evaluation software. I would write about it, but currently I'm in Saudi myself and cannot properly research the subject, as most of the sites containing relevant information are blocked as well :) -- 198.36.32.21 13:43, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
- Eventually I did find some useful info and put it into the article - expansion is of course welcome. -- 198.36.32.21 14:40, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Order of nations
I'd like to eventually reorganize the order of the nations list by the pervasiveness of their censorship according to the Open Net Initiative and Reporter's without Border's censorship map. Unless someone opposes this, I'm going to go ahead and do it at some point.--Daveswagon 16:36, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Censorship of MySpace in Denmark.
I don't live there, nor do I visit MySpace, but I found that bit of information odd. A search for "myspace denmark" and related terms didn't bring up any relevant results. I also checked MySpace, and there are plenty of users from Denmark. Please don't re-add Denmark to the list of sites blocking MySpace unless you can confirm it. AnonymousOrc 12:17, 30 September 2006 (UTC) І
[edit] Schools
Did I miss the point where allowing schools to make pornography, etc. unavailable for students became censorship in the same way as rounding up dissidents or fining users for looking at opposition parties? That sounds like hysteria - the kind that diminishes the cause for everyone else.