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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.
A 2018 study of millions of individual responses of Chinese social media users found that sudden censorship of information by the Chinese government and its affiliates often led to mass backlashes, including newfound popularity of virtual private networks and the subsequent reviewing of entire topic lists on which censored subjects appear. [7]
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.
Germany is again a chilling example of the true record of such systems. Past polling of German citizens found that only 18 percent felt free to express their opinions in public.
Censorship aspects are measured by Freedom on the Net [54] and OpenNet Initiative (ONI) classifications. [83] Censorship by country collects information on censorship, internet censorship, press freedom, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information. In ...
HONG KONG — A newly released video game from China topped charts worldwide on Wednesday, in what was celebrated as a breakthrough for the global projection of Chinese culture even as overseas ...
Myanmar was the most severely impacted nation. It lost an estimated $2.8 billion to internet shutdowns, according to Top10VPN.
A widely publicized example of internet censorship is the "Great Firewall of China" (in reference both to its role as a network firewall and the ancient Great Wall of China). The system blocks content by preventing IP addresses from being routed through and consists of standard firewall and proxy servers at the internet gateways.