Tag Archives: censorship

The China model of government Internet censorship

Some people were shocked when the Internet in Egypt and then Libya was all but shut down. They shouldn’t have been. It’s not all that hard to ‘pull the plug’ on the Internet, especially in countries with a relatively small number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). It’s not high tech. When guys with guns show [...]
Posted in Essay | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Government Internet censorship on the rise

It’s sort of been an article of faith that censorship on the Internet doesn’t work. The unspoken question has been: Is this true? On the face of it, of course it’s not true. Parents do Internet censorship all the time, and parental control software is a fairly big item for the software industry. Then there’s [...]
Posted in Impact: Online Information | Also tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Impact Watch: China out of the Internet?

If China removes itself from the Internet, what impact would that have? I don’t mean that China won’t have the Internet, or even that it will cut itself off entirely from international connections, but what if, for all practical purposes China operates on a different, separate Internet? What would removing the world’s largest Internet using [...]
Posted in Impact: Online Information | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment