Do you live in a country with mandatory internet censorship?

[Ariel_001]

Do you live in a country with mandatory internet censorship?

Update:
I am talking about countries that do active filtering on internet access.

Check out:
http://www.isu.net.sa/saudi-internet/contenet-filtring/filtring-policy.htm
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens3.html


Pursuant to the Council of Ministers’ decree concerning the regulation of use of the Internet in Saudi Arabia, all sites that contain content in violation of Islamic tradition or national regulations shall be blocked.

A security committee chaired by the Ministry of Interior was formulated. One of the tasks assigned to this committee is the selection of sites to be blocked and the oversight of this process. However, due to the wide-spread and diverse nature of pornographic sites, KACST was commissioned to directly block these types of sites.

Other non-pornographic sites are only blocked based upon direct requests from the security bodies within the government. KACST has no authority in the selection of such sites and it’s role is limited to carrying out the directions of these security bodies.

[cpt_azad]

No

[ofbz]

no... but... are there countries that censor the internet???? damnn...

[Afronaut]

Yeah, check China (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/). And that covers how many ppl possibly?

How would you know you been cencored is another matter,
but to deny access to Internet, or close the borders is Lame I say.

What if all the Chinese Familys had an PC and could access "everything"?
Would that change the ppl how they see their leaders etc?

I dont feel like i've been cencored that much. Imin norway atm.
But, you know that Google has national web pages and can be filtering stuff,
dependong on the country? I read about that somewhere, cant remember where thought, probably at +fravia's (http://www.searchlores.org/papers.htm) site.

And the web is full of sites that teaches you how to go around the filtering anyways. If you use internet more than normally, you most likely end up
on those sites sooner or later, or finds links to them.

[ahctlucabbuS]

No.

In Norway as well.

Interesting part about google's national web pages.

Why, and what would they filter though? :blink:

[vidcc]

I think most countries have "some" maditory censorship. The question is what level does one count.
For example The UK will (or at least used to) prosecute under the obscenity laws anyone publishing certain porn, one case i remember someone was convicted even though it wasn't hosted in the UK, becuase he uploaded from the UK. If this is still the case can be cleared up if anyone has more upto date knowledge.
this is not to say it's illegal to view such material

Child porn is also censored. Most western countries will convict anyone viewing this. (this i agree with). It's one thing for consenting adults to work in the industry or view porn, another when it comes to underage and non consentual.

[vidcc]

Interesting part about google's national web pages.

Why, and what would they filter though? :blink:to give one choice to not view certain things

Edit: or did you mean what china filters and not talking about the google filter?

[Ariel_001]

I am talking about countries that do active filtering on internet access.

Check out:
http://www.isu.net.sa/saudi-internet/contenet-filtring/filtring-policy.htm
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens3.html


Pursuant to the Council of Ministers’ decree concerning the regulation of use of the Internet in Saudi Arabia, all sites that contain content in violation of Islamic tradition or national regulations shall be blocked.

A security committee chaired by the Ministry of Interior was formulated. One of the tasks assigned to this committee is the selection of sites to be blocked and the oversight of this process. However, due to the wide-spread and diverse nature of pornographic sites, KACST was commissioned to directly block these types of sites.

Other non-pornographic sites are only blocked based upon direct requests from the security bodies within the government. KACST has no authority in the selection of such sites and it’s role is limited to carrying out the directions of these security bodies.

[Barbarossa]

Whoops, I meant no.

:blushing:

[ahctlucabbuS]

to give one choice to not view certain things

Edit: or did you mean what china filters and not talking about the google filter?

I meant the google filter.

Child pornography and the like obviously gets filtered out from most countries.

However I was for the most part refering to what google's national pages could be filtering, and what might be the difference between google's national pages in western countries.

I take it google doesn't operate in China?

[vidcc]

I meant the google filter.

Child pornography and the like obviously gets filtered out from most countries.

However I was for the most part refering to what google's national pages could be filtering, and what might be the difference between google's national pages in western countries.

I take it google doesn't operate in China?
Ah well my answer stands...google filter gives the individual a choice. It operates on the world web and i believe it filters out adult content, not political

[ahctlucabbuS]

A search for 'sex' produced some of the following hits:

sexpistols

sex and the city

sex addicts anonymous

The official Alien Sex Fiend website

sex laws

And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible

As you can see, not at all exciting :( :rolleyes:

[vidcc]

try going into the google preferences and change the filter level..... i do appreciate you will only be doing this for "ahem"....."research" :whistling :lol:

[ahctlucabbuS]

Yes, like the above :shifty:

[Ariel_001]

ok...

http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/ in Saudi Arabia, (I know people there)

http://img38.exs.cx/img38/7955/bliocked.jpp

I guess he can't see the movie there also..

Damn it, Not imageshack too... :angry:

http://img37.exs.cx/img37/8357/imageshack1.jpg

[BawA]

site with porn contents r blocked here via proxy but with diffrent proxy we can browse them.
http://img132.exs.cx/img132/6398/block.th.jpg (http://img132.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img132&image=block.jpg)

[Afronaut]

Ah well my answer stands...google filter gives the individual a choice. It operates on the world web and i believe it filters out adult content, not political Check this out:


BEIJING (Reuters) - China is blocking access to the Web site Google News, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, and accused the U.S.-based company of being complicit by filtering its Chinese-language site. The Paris-based group said the government had been blocking Google's English-language Web site (www.news.google.com (http://www.news.google.com)) for about 10 days, after the company launched a Chinese-language version that removed politically sensitive reports.

Attempts by Reuters to access the site in China on Tuesday resulted in a search freeze.

"China is censoring Google News to force Internet users to use the Chinese version of the site which has been purged of the most critical news reports," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.

"By agreeing to launch a news service that excludes publications disliked by the government, Google has let itself be used by Beijing," it said.

Google News launched it its Chinese version in September and agreed not to list certain news on the site, Reporters Without Borders said.

The practice is also common to popular Chinese Web portals, including Sina.com, Sohu.com and NetEase.com, which patrol their sites to delete politically sensitive comments.

China's Internet market is expected to grow to 111 million subscribers by year-end and is considered a medium for free expression, but the government has in past jailed people for Web postings.

It has also created a special cyber police force to monitor sites, servers and registrars. From here:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6951891

Edit:

Found another link too:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11968

:cool2:

[Afronaut]

Another interesting post in Slashdot,

Some guy posted the robot.txtfile of whitehouse.

That file is made for Spiders that index the Website for future searches.
They will be ignored.

From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt



# robots.txt for http://www.whitehouse.gov/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/iraq
Disallow: /360pics/text
Disallow: /911/911day/iraq
Disallow: /911/911day/text
Disallow: /911/heroes/iraq
Disallow: /911/heroes/text
Disallow: /911/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism/text
Disallow: /911/patriotism2/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism2/text
Disallow: /911/progress/iraq

(...snip, it had too many entrys, close to 80k words in this post...)

And the post in Slashdot:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/12/01/0222254.shtml?tid=153&tid=95&tid=217&tid=17

This post particular:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131297&cid=10960600

I find this interesting to read. Imn ot sure what to make of it tho,
I know the robot-txt is used for perfectly good reasons also,
Like, the Temp files,news that are not finished to publish or somesuch.

But it could be used to cencor stuff, technically speaking.
Or, why make "the news" about something you would need to block anyways? Thats just Silly.


:)

[Voetsek]

Not yet

[Formula1]

I live in the USA, so i don't think so ;)

[winXPHE]

yup but a proxy works wonders :;p: