Study shows many countries censor web - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 21st May 2007, 09:00

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/05...b_censorship/1

A recent collection of studies from major universities has shown that Internet censorship is a lot more common than it seems.

r4tch3t · 21st May 2007, 09:22

This is not unexpected really, the governments want to control us. For America, it would go against freedom of speech if they censored the net. Personally I think the internet should be completely uncensored and unrestricted.
Not surprised that South Korea blocks North Korea.

capnPedro · 21st May 2007, 11:50

It takes a lot of time and money to censor the web. Some of these countries have much better things to spend the money on at the moment.

To me, censorship isn't just a crappy thing to force upon people, it's an irresponsible thing to do.

completemadness · 21st May 2007, 13:10

What about the UK and US ?

i bet they do filter some stuff, like child pornography at least

Bauul · 21st May 2007, 18:06

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Originally Posted by completemadness

What about the UK and US ?

i bet they do filter some stuff, like child pornography at least

As far as I'm aware: nope. About the only filtering that goes on is some ISPs deliberately slow down data transfers over known Bit Torrent ports to maintain high bandwidth across their network, but that's about it. The USA wouldn't dare touching the 'net when one of their priding glories is their freedom of speech. It's for that reason I'm perfectly happy to let the US government look afer the Internet's structural allocations.

completemadness · 22nd May 2007, 17:03

slowing it down isn't filtering

Its QoS, and its a reasonably fair thing to do, would you prefer that sumone Else's bittorrent screws up your phone call, or would you rather that it was queued a bit better so that you can both have very good service

However, where i would draw the line is when people suffer seriously degraded service because the ISP doesn't have the bandwidth

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21st May 2007, 13:10	#4
completemadness Hypermodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 887	What about the UK and US ? i bet they do filter some stuff, like child pornography at least

22nd May 2007, 17:03	#6
completemadness Hypermodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 887	slowing it down isn't filtering Its QoS, and its a reasonably fair thing to do, would you prefer that sumone Else's bittorrent screws up your phone call, or would you rather that it was queued a bit better so that you can both have very good service However, where i would draw the line is when people suffer seriously degraded service because the ISP doesn't have the bandwidth