Category: Censorship

  • Countries With The Most Severe Censorship

    Currently, the Internet has become no substitute for people around the world. Some are delighted with the opportunities offered by the Internet, others are neutral to the world wide web, and still, others see a threat to the country. For most state regimes, the unchanged Internet poses a danger – primarily because of the possibility…

  • The Great Firewall: The Truth about Chinese Internet Censorship

    Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable or a threat to security. Every country has its internet censorship system, but when compared to mainland China, other countries have much more lose restrictions when it comes to censorship. Chinese internet censorship works very…

  • How Can Censorship Impede Democracy?

    Censorship is a pretty challenging task in this day and age with the advances of the Internet. Censorship is the act of denying access to any material, speech, public announcements, or information that is in opposition to the lawmakers, acting government, institutions, or corporations putting the censorship rules in place. It has almost always throughout…

  • Internet Censoring Technologies

    Introduction The possibility of intelligent softwares intervenes our day to day life has always pose a range of ethical and moral issues and its stand on these issues. (Thomas B. Sheridan. 2016) From SIRI (Apple Inc) to self-driving cars human interactive technologies is growing by leaps and bounds. (Giuseppe Aceto et al. 2015) Akin to…

  • Social and Ethical Implications of Internet Censorship

    More than one-fourth of the planet’s populace utilizes the Internet today, despite the fact that entrance to it is exceptionally uneven all through the world. The web has changed the manner by which individuals acquire news, direct business, speak with each other, mingle, and interface with open authorities (Kelly, Cook & Truong). However, most of…

  • The Media Censorship Between China and Turkey

    Media censorship is the concealment of articulation, communication or any detailed fact that is treated as disagreeable, inappropriate and sensitive. In Chines government strictly keeps a check on the traditional as well as novel media to prevent potential disruption of its position in the world. While in Turkey, media censorship is modulated by international and…

  • Is Internet Censorship Necessary or Must Be Avoided?

    Introduction In todays world, it has become impossible to imagine our world without the internet. Even the simple activity such as communication and entertainment relies on the internet heavily. Internet has gone beyond the context of connecting just computers and users. The internet provides a diverse range of data and information to different sections of…

  • The Aspects of Social Media Censorship

    Having social media can have many ethical and legal implications. Social media such as Facebooks censorship has arisen on its users. Imagine having to follow certain rules in order to open a Facebook account and being monitored. Following the same information filtering and reporting requirements as the government commands. Thousands and thousands of people use…

  • Internet Censorship in China: Pros and Cons

    Censorship, as it is defined today, is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, harmful, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. In many countries, the freedom to use the internet as we wish does not exist. Certain searches and even entire parts of the internet…

  • Should Censorship Be Mandatory for Movies?

    If ones friend jumps off a bridge would they follow? Most people are asked this question because they are doing something dumb that they saw someone else do. Now take that and apply it to watching movies and TV. If one sees or hears something on a movie, they are more than likely to repeat…