Unit 7: International Perspectives & Issues

1. Richard Audet, Jon Ericksen Jr. and Kyle Hardy Unit 7: International Perspectives & Issues

2. Terminology • Blacklist-A list of e-mail/web addresses that have banned by a certain ISP. • ISP-Internet service provider. • Data controllers-An organization or person in charge of large amounts of personal data. • PC Bang- 24 hour gaming parlors, located on almost every street in Korea. • European Union Data Privacy Directive-creates rights for persons about whom information is collected, known as "data subjects." Entities that collect information must give data subjects notice explaining who is collecting the data, who will ultimately have access to it, and why the data is being collected. Data subjects also have the right to access and correct data about them. • Censorship-The practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. • Global Economy-International economic activity which includes the world-wide integration of markets for goods, services, labor, and capital. • Capitalism-An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state

3. The List: Look Who’s Censoring the Internet Now. • Australia • The Australian government claimed to have been blocking sites solely based on child pornography and terrorism however a leak of the actual list by Wikileaks showed the list was covering a much more broad spectrum of content than expected. • France • Any sites or internet connections that had been involved in illegal file sharing would be censored and prosecuted. This also included people whose internet connections were used for illegal file sharing even if it may have been unbeknownst to them. • India • Any sites that in any way depicted political radicalism. For instance Yahoo! Groups was blocked from all ISP due to forming of groups that opposed India’s current religion. 2008 Mumbai attacks were discovered to have been planned using Google Earth which caused political movements to be made that motioned for the popular site to be blocked. It was later thrown out. • Argentina • Movements were made towards Google and Yahoo! Because of their popular search engines that when searching for soccer legend Diego Maradona would actually return results that were associated with pornography. The search engines are currently bound under legal action to withhold the search results until all legal action has been finished. • South Korea • With the constant struggle between North Korea and South Korea it comes to no surprise that South Korea’s web censoring is solely focused on any form of propaganda that may be produced by North Korea. Some in South Korea has found ways to bypass these blocks and such via internet servers in Japan.

4. A Fantasy World Is Creating Problems in South Korea • In South Korea online gaming has become a life threatening addiction. They tell a story of a couple who met on an online chat room, Kim Jae-beom 41 and his soon to be wife Kim Yun-jeong. Every day they would wake up and spend 12+ hours online roleplaying at a 24-hour cyber café. They play all night and sleep all day. This eventually would cost them the life of their own child.

5. Google and Saving Face in China • On January 12, Google announced that it could no longer censor results on google.cn because its source code was hacked and Gmail accounts of human rights activists were attacked • On March 22, Google said it was going to change from google.cn (China-based search engine) to google.com.hk where its results are not filtered • Beijing filters and blocks access to search results from Google in Hong Kong. • China Mobile and China Unicom have anounced and are expected to cancel business deals for mobile search and Google’s android phone. • An American Chamber of Commerce in China survey shows that in 2010, 38 percent of companies feel unwelcome in China’s hostile market compared to 23 percent in 2008 • Some access to Google will remain so the government can show it is sensitive to scientist and others who are worried about the impact that losing Google would have on the country.

6. Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy? • The problem of conflicting privacy laws between nations is being tested with the advancement of the internet in foreign markets. • In 2000, French Jewish group sued Yahoo, In 2004, an eBay executive was imprisoned in India, and in 2010, three Google employees were convicted of criminal defamation for a YouTube video showing school bullying of a disabled child. • Europe has some of the world's strictest privacy laws • Privacy considered a fundamental right • Other information businesses which expanded into the foreign markets were met with hostility and lawsuits • European reaction to growing Facebook presence could dictate companies future.

7. Discussion Questions • Do you think web censorship is needed? Why? • If you could choose what to censor on the web for the USA what would you choose and why? • In your opinion is there enough being done to prevent or help those who are affected by online gaming addictions? • Should international websites adapt to individual nations laws or operate separately?