Today, I would like to talk about internet censorship around the world. The first country that I want to talk about their internet censorship is Sweden.
Sweden
In Sweden, the Parliament legislated the "Act (1998:112) on Responsibility for Electronic Bulletin Boards". Electronic bulletin board is defined as to include storage of data on the Internet such as web pages, excluding personal mailboxes. The law places an charge on service providers who store information to remove such as instigation of rebellion, racial agitation, child pornography and illegal description of violence.
China
China had used a filtering system to avoid delivery of offending information by blocking the access to about 100 websites. For instance, western news outlets, Taiwanese commentary sites, anti-China dissident sites and sexually explicit sites. According to Associated Press, China has issued its most intrusive Internet controls to date, ordering service providers to screen private e-mail for political content and holding them responsible for subversive postings on their Web sites in 2002. That's all for China and which country will be the next??
France
France has been enforcing the laws prohibiting race hate material concerning illegal material on the internet. For instance, in 2000, a French judge had ruled that USA Yahoo! Inc must blocked the access of French users to sites that about race hate memorabilia. Yahoo! said that it was technically impossible for it to block Internet users in France from searching Nazi-related content on USA websites and it is French site that followed with France's laws forbidding advertising Nazi memorabilia.
United States
The USA Government has enacted two Federal laws intended to censor offensive online content. The first law, The Communications Decency Act (CDA) was enacted in February 1996. The CDA prohibited Internet users from using the Internet to communicate material that, under contemporary community standards, would be deemed patently offensive to minors under the age of eighteen. The second law is Child Online Protection Act (COPA) which is more narrowly focussed and covers only communications that are made for commercial purposes on the World Wide Web.
These are the online censorship law around this world. Online censorship should be enforced all the time so that people will not simply do things that is against the law. What do you think? Do drop me comments.. Thx... =)
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Sources:
URL: http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens3.html
United States:
ReplyDeleteSpeaking about Online Censorship over there, aren't most of their stuff filled with "Indecent" stuff?
I wouldn't say XXX stuff or what not, but the Hate Articles, misinformation about Islam, and etc.
I think their censorship for Online there is not enforced until someone actually file a complaint or law suit.