The Korean Hyperbolic and anti discrimination and defamation law put pressure on Google Korea to force YouTube user to register with their National ID-Number to upload a vide or write a comment. In the past Koreans upload insulting and bad videos to video platforms that was driving a famous Korean actress to suicide. This case is used now by the Government and the Cuperpolice to force YouTube change their upload policies. YouTube at the moment just canceled the upload and comment function. There is no solution to this issue now. and also no timing when the upload function is away able again. If every post needs to have a ID-Number. If I think about the consequnseses…I am scared. total online media control of the Korean government.
Internet censorship in the United States is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States. Personal Internet access in the US is not subject to technical censorship but can be penalized by law for violating the rights of others. Programs such as content-control software are sometimes used within institutions such as businesses, libraries, schools, and government offices. Though most online expression is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, laws such as those concerning libel, intellectual property, and pornography still determine how and if certain content can be published online.
Internet content that violates U.S. law and is physically hosted in the United States may be removed through legal processes. For example, pirated films available on a website hosted in California could be targeted by the U.S. legal system. Similar content hosted in another country could not.
Such content removals are routine and are usually not broadly labeled as government “censorship”. However, controversial cases have occurred that some argue cross the line into censorship.
In February 2008, the Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks lawsuit prompted the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to issue a permanent injunction against the website Wikileaks’ domain name registrar. The result was that Wikileaks could not be accessed through its web address. This elicited accusations of censorship and resulted in the Electronic Frontier Foundation stepping up to defend Wikileaks. After a later hearing, the injunction was lifted.
Block against Cuban websites
In March 2008, a New York Times story mentions that eNom is known to disable domain names which appear on a US Treasury Department blacklist.It describes eNom’s disabling of a European travel agent’s Web sites advertising travel to Cuba, which appeared on a U.S. Treasury Department list published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The article’s sources use words varying from “scandal” to “legally required” to describe “how Web sites owned by a British national operating via a Spanish travel agency can be affected by U.S. law”, especially when the operation is as “mysterious” as that of the OFAC list.
As you may see, the initial upload of the video was taken from youtube. You may ask yourself why it has been removed? Does the owner (or copyright holder) of the video not want it to be published? No, there is censorship happening on youtube!
But as you may have guessed, it showed up again quite quickly:
Peaceful protesters were beat up unprovoked by the German Police.
Sky News Business Channel reporter Lisa Creffield investigates ongoing debate about Internet censorship and the Rudd government’s policy on content filtering.
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Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. Nice wikipedia entry about all the countries in the world with online cencorship and how and why they do it. Check it out, Wikipedia link
As broadcast on Channel 7 evening news Sydney 10th. September 2009.
Lee Jeloscek Reporting “Internet Censorship War”
Get-Up’s Simon Sheik claims the proposed filter will cost ($33 million)s of dollars with very little by way of solving any perceived problems.
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