Online Censorship? How they do it?

There are few techniques of censorship implemented online. Those that I’m going to share about are pixelization, bleep noise, captioning, censorware and firewall. Here how it goes like:

Pixelization is where in a video or image the part that needs to be censored will be blurred or shown in a lower resolution.

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It’s a way which allows people to view it without seeing the censored part. It’s a way where we can avoid or stop people from being exposed to nudity or profanity images or video.

Bleep noise are inserted to censor the vulgar word that is been used in a speech or it even can be a small part in a song or video. For example, most western songs consist vulgar words which some music portals have censored it and some have not. Even the video clips or drama series or even news cast in video portals, those elements that are vulgar or not encouraged to be listen usually bleep noise are inserted to censor it.


Captioning is used to avoid vulgar words in replacement with an array of asterisks. This technique is used when writing article or even in song lyrics, an example of Eminem song:

"Ohh Beeby, the way you shake it, I can’t believe it, I ain’t never seen an *** like that the way you move it, you make my peepee go DOING DOING DOING. I don’t believe it, it’s almost to good to be true I ain’t never seen an *** like that the way you move it, you make my ****** go DOING DOING DOING"

http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/e/eminem/Ass-Like-That-Lyrics.htm

Captioning is mostly used in blogs. Bloggers love to express their feelings and expressions in their blog post but yet we are not allowed to do so because of censorship. I believe that most of us don’t wish to asterisks all the word that we want to express yet we don’t have a choice right?....=)

Censorware is mostly used by parents or guardian to filter or block internet content that can be harmful to their children. The system works based on the settings emphasized to block certain content/ website from being used by children. The settings of the software system determine whether to permit acess to that particular content or website. It prevents kids from misusing the internet in the wrong way. This is a good precaution to be practiced by all parents and guardians to prevent kids from being influenced by unsecured and immorality elements in the internet.

Firewall is a combination of software and hardware which can do filtering. This system is usually implemented by an organization to restrict people from viewing or access into unsecured/ explicit sites. For example, an host organization implements firewall to prevent their staff from accessing social network sites like Facebook and Friendster and instant messaging applications like MSN or Yahoo messenger. This is because people tend to be to keen into instant messaging and busy writing comments on people's ‘Wall’ in Facebook where they end up not completing their task. Sounds familiar… =P ...Another example will be in most colleges where they restrict their students from accessing into Facebook, Friendster, You-tube and many other entertainment websites.

I hope that the information that I have shared is helpful to you. Don’t forget to drop us your comment on the techniques that are implemented for online censorship.

Have a great bloggin-tines day tommorrow…Enjoy =)