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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.
Internet censorship in the United States of America is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States.The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship.
The use of censored data is unintentional but necessary. Sometimes engineers plan a test program so that, after a certain time limit or number of failures, all other tests will be terminated. These suspended times are treated as right-censored data. The use of censored data is intentional.
Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Not categorized by ONI due to lack of data. Cuba has the lowest ratio of computers per inhabitant in Latin America, and the lowest internet access ratio of all the Western hemisphere. [17] Citizens have to use government controlled "access points", where their activity is monitored through IP blocking, keyword filtering and browsing history ...
Virtual private network (VPN): Using a VPN, a user who experiences internet censorship can create a secure connection to a more permissive country, and browse the internet as if they were situated in that country. [1] Some services are offered for a monthly fee; others are ad-supported.
Censored pre-press proof of two articles from Notícias da Amadora, a Portuguese newspaper, 1970 The former Soviet Union maintained a particularly extensive program of state-imposed censorship. The main organ for official censorship in the Soviet Union was the Chief Agency for Protection of Military and State Secrets generally known as the ...
No data (does not indicate no censorship or no filtering) — Not classified More information links: c: Link to Censorship in country article i: Link to Internet censorship in country article p: Link to Freedom of the press or Freedom of speech in country article h: Link to Human rights in country article