INTERNET CENSORSHIP

Internet Censorship

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Internet censorship” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Internet censorship” and its relation with “students searching abilities”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Internet censorship” and tries to gauge its effect on “students searching abilities”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Internet censorship” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Internet censorship” on “students searching abilities”.

Internet Censorship

Introduction

Many people accept as true the Internet has become the World's Emancipation Proclamation. They accept as true that this newfound cyber-freedom will free countless generations of people. These people will be of every race, creed and color, whose lives, up until now, have been restrained by the paradigm of governments (Hudson 2008). Whether it is the joined States Government, or the government of a foreign territory, the Internet will be our new below ground Railroad of cyberspace.

Internet censorship did not happen overnight but slowly came to America's shores from testing grounds in China and the Middle East (Gracey 2008).

Body: Discussion and Analysis

Progressive and investigative reporter web site managers are starting to converse to each other about it, e-mail users are beginning to understand why their e-mail is being disturbed by it, major seek motors emerge to be complying with it, and the low to identical signal-to-noise ratio of legitimate e-mail and spam appears to be perpetuated by it (Godwin 2008).

In this case, "it," is what privacy and computer experts have long warned about: huge censorship of the world wide world wide web on a nationwide and international scale. For many years, the world wide world wide web has been very strongly censored in nations round the world. That censorship continues at this very moment (Global Internet Liberty Campaign 2008). Now it is happening right here in America.

"Schools and libraries are injuring scholars by setting up heavy-handed world wide web filtering. The problem goes back for years (Curran 2008). Afilter blocked the world wide web location of previous dwelling most Leader Richard Armey because it noticed the word 'dick,' according to a 2001 study from the Brennan Center of Justice. The reason of schools should be to educate students to live in a popular humanity, and that means teaching critical thinking and displaying scholars controversial Web sites, states Craig Cunningham, a professor at National-Louis University. He quoted from a National ...