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Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
For example, a social media platform may restrict speech that it considers to be hate speech more broadly than is required by US law, [107] and may restrict speech that it considers to be harassment and verbal abuse. Restriction of hate speech and harassment on social media is the subject of debate.
Currently, social media censorship appears primarily as a way to restrict Internet users' ability to organize protests. For the Chinese government, seeing citizens unhappy with local governance is beneficial as state and national leaders can replace unpopular officials.
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Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
On the other hand, analysts and experts have made clear that social media companies have a responsibility to limit the spread of information that is false or could incite real world violence.
In response to the Online News Act, Meta (owner of Facebook) began blocking access to news sites for Canadian users at the beginning of August 2023. [15] [16] This also extended to local Canadian news stories about the wildfires, [17] a decision that was heavily criticized by Trudeau, local government officials, academics, researchers, and evacuees.
But the way in which politically motivated censorship has been wrapped into the government’s concerns about user safety and privacy on social media platforms is a familiar tactic that goes back ...