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COMP 2903 A35- The List: Look Who’s Censoring the Internet Now

COMP 2903 A35- The List: Look Who’s Censoring the Internet Now. Danny Silver JSOCS, Acadia University. Joshua Keating Foreign Policy, March, 2009. A native of Brooklyn, New York Studied comparative politics at Oberlin College. Associate editor at Foreign Policy, Editor of the Passport blog

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COMP 2903 A35- The List: Look Who’s Censoring the Internet Now

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  1. COMP 2903A35- The List: Look Who’s Censoring the Internet Now Danny Silver JSOCS, Acadia University

  2. Joshua KeatingForeign Policy, March, 2009 • A native of Brooklyn, New York • Studied comparative politics at Oberlin College. • Associate editor at Foreign Policy, Editor of the Passport blog • Researcher, editorial assistant, and deputy Web editor since joining the FP staff in 2007 • Published by the Washington Post, Newsweek International, Radio Prague, the Center for Defense Information, and Romania's Adevarul newspaper • Has appeared on CNN International, C-Span, ABC News, Al Jazeera, NPR, BBC radio

  3. Australia • Official Target: child porn, terrorism • Behind the wall: • Filtration by ISPs to all users • Black list – Australian Comm. and Media Authority • 2,935 URLs including: • Online poker, Satanism, euthanasia • Queensland dentist office ?? • Did the law go ahead ???

  4. Australia • Law has been delay • Commission created to determine criteria for blocking • Concerned with transparency and accountability • A new Classification Review Board will set blocked sites • Due ~July, 2011 • Source: Sydney Morning Herald • So what happened ??

  5. France • Official Target: File-sharing • Behind the wall: • Posed to pass the world’s toughest antipiracy law to date • Require ISPs to deny access to those Ips repeatly caught downloading illegal material • Strongly supported by music and film industries and President N. Sarkozy • Did the law go ahead ???

  6. France • Law did pass • 1st time caught – email notice • 2nd time - misuse of the internet (ie. accessing a bad site) you get a written letter • 3rd time – here comes the judge • Started charging people Sept 2010 • Today about 1M charged with at least 1st offence • Where does this stand now??

  7. India • Official Target: Political radicals, terrorist tools • Behind the wall: • Given rise to India’s CERT – Computer Emergency Response Team • Black lists sites • Shut down Hindu nationalists • Yahoo! blocked in 2003 • Google Earth block attempted as well in 2008 • Does CERT still exist – what is the latest on them?

  8. India • 2010 - CERT still existed and active • Seem more about computer viruses than elicit content • Acting more as security violations clearing house – they accept violation reports • Release annual reports since 2006 • 263,000 bot infect computers tracked • Website “defacement” – 659 as of Aug, 2010

  9. Argentina • Official Target: Celebrity dirt • Behind the wall: • 2007 - Diego Maradona and 70 other celebs filed class action law suit against Google and Yahoo! • Claim the SEs associated them with porn and libelous sites against their will • Judge ruled in favour • Like “suing the newstand for what appears in the newspapers it sells” • Where does Argentina stand on this today?

  10. Argentina • Aug 13, 2010 • Appellet court overturn 2008 ruling that found Google and Yahoo! liable for deformation of character • Court could find no liability for injuries that may have occurred from information existing on other websites of the internet

  11. South Korea • Official Target: North Korean propaganda • Behind the wall: • 90% of SK has the internet • ISP must block as many as 120,000 sites from an official gov’t black list • Porn, gambling, North Korea, Unification • Related to 1948 anti-communist law • Has SK released its grip lately???

  12. South Korea • 2010 - Bit of a shift away from 1948 • NSL is still in effect • Seems like things have gotten worse • Legislation on telecomm security • Korean Internet Safety Commission • Established blocked sites • Have strayed into blocking political commentary • Persons have been arrested • Youtube use curtailed

  13. Your thoughts • Are you surprised to learn of government censorship of internet traffic in France and Australia? • What do you know of such censorship in Canada or the USA? • Is there anything that you would censor? • Why? • How would you do it?

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