CENSORSHIP By Xavier chris Bryce and Vanessa INTERNET
CENSORSHIP By: Xavier, chris, Bryce, and Vanessa
INTERNET CENSORSHIP
CENSORSHIP WE ALREADY KNOW!
“ The Internet is not a public sphere. It is a private sphere that tolerates public speech. “ Online censorship in democratic countries, like america may seem like a small issue But it does have a great effect on the way we consume content.
When does blocking content block free speech? Facebook and other media sources blocked Info. Wars although to me is a toxic source, does it not fall under free speech. https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=l 9 RBXl E 86 Ng
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China!!!
How do they do it!? ● Monitoring systems ● Firewalls ● Jailing dissident media contributors ● Promoting domestic companies over foreign
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“Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System”
Internet Security Divulging secrets Subverting state power Damaging state honor Propagating heretical or superstitious ideas Spreading rumours and disrupting social order and stability
Censorship Forcibly put an end to any parts of mass media that are deemed apolitical to the prohibitor’s ideology.
Different Types of Mass Media - Newspapers Magazines Radio Television The Internet
Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow “This is a story about memory and imagination, and about the reorganizations of human intelligence that are about to leave us all in a new – or a very ancient – kind of darkness” (Fawcett 11).
An Act of Barbarism In 1975, after the last anti-Khmer Rouge resistance collapsed in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, the largest of the cities, was transformed into a ghost town in a matter of days after the liberation. The Khmer Rouge then painted over, with white paint, every single sign in the city.
Cambodia: Metaphor of the Imperium (Fawcett) - The Global Village “. . . has created a new Imperium for the post-modern world…” (Fawcett 53). - A city… - where the stakes are always ultimate - where what is truthful and good receives its suppression - and is economically affected by the emergence of “franchise-oriented consumer capitalism”
In Congo, “ 15 to 40 million Africans died… by murder and starvation” (Hannah Arendt) Arendt was insensitive to 25 million human lives or deaths Translating death into statistics is considered an act of barbarism.
Censorship in Russia
August 30, 1958 October 7, 2006 Anna Politkovskaya
Beslan School Siege ● The Gymnasium in which child hostages were held
Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov ● Notoriously close with Putin ● Declared Anna his sworn enemy ● Essentially served Anna a death sentence https: //youtu. be/9 WKv. CUGUhto ? t=502
Russia Descends Into The Abyss ● Anna’s murder takes place on Putin's 54 th birthday ● Lead to other Humanitarian and political assassinations ● Today Russia has invaded, destroyed, or manipulated countries as Anna predicted
Russia’s Control of Media The court of human rights said that Russia had information on the attack and did nothing to stop it. did not understand "the full seriousness of the situation in Beslan after the seizing of the hostages" "risks of the process of carrying out a rescue operation"
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