Internet censorship
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- | :''[[undead]] [[film critic]]'' | + | '''Internet censorship''' is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the [[Internet]]. The legal issues are similar to offline [[censorship]]. |
- | ''[[Undead Film Critic]]'' (2008 - 2009) is an Anglophone [[exploitation culture]] [[blog]] with a fixation on [[breast fetishism]]. It was deleted from [[Blogger]] in February 2009, see [[internet censorship]]. | + | One difference is that national borders are more permeable online: residents of a country that bans certain information can find it on [[website]]s 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 may take action against Internet sites anywhere in the world, if they host objectionable material. |
- | It is connected to [[Jahsonic]] via [[PCL Linkdump]]. | + | Barring total control on Internet-connected computers, such as in [[North Korea]], total censorship of information on the Internet is very difficult (or impossible) to achieve due to the underlying distributed technology of the Internet. [[Pseudonymity]] and [[data haven]]s (such as [[Freenet]]) 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 [[digital identity|identity]] or [[organization]]. |
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Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. The legal issues are similar to offline censorship.
One 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 may take action against Internet sites anywhere in the world, if they host objectionable material.
Barring total control on Internet-connected computers, such as in North Korea, total censorship of information on the Internet is very difficult (or impossible) to achieve due to the underlying distributed technology of the Internet. Pseudonymity and data havens (such as Freenet) 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.